The health authorities on Wednesday announced detection of 3462 new coronavirus cases and 37 deaths within the last 24 hours.
Since March 8, when the first cases were reported, Bangladesh has carried out 6,60,444 tests and identified 1,22,660 Covid-19 patients.
The death tally reached 1582 today.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin.
The country has been seeing a spike in the number of cases in recent weeks.
