Bangladesh has witnessed 26 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,219.
The country also registered more than 362,000 coronavirus cases with 1,488 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 362,043.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Tuesday afternoon.
Of the 26 deceased, including 21 men, 16 were from Dhaka division, five from Chittagong, two each from Khulna and Sylhet, one from Rajshahi division.
Of the victims, 25 died at different hospitals and one at home.
So far, 4,039 men (77.39%) and 1,180 women (22.61%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.44%.
The DGHS said 12,769 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 12,869 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 106 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,488 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.56%.
To date, 1,934,251 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.72% so far.
The health authorities said 1,625 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 273,698 patients — 75.60% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,006,955 lives and infected 33,578,679 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 24,897,623 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
