Bangladesh has 33 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,305.
The country also logged more than 366,000 coronavirus cases with 1,396 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far has gone up to 366,383.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Friday afternoon.
Of the 33 deceased, including 25 men, 21 were from Dhaka division, six from Chittagong, three from Rajshahi, and one each from Khulna, Barisal, and Mymensingh divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 4,104 men (77.36%) and 1,201 women (22.64%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%.
The DGHS said 11,509 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 11,176 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,396 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.49%.
To date, 1,970,251 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.60% so far.
Health authorities said 1,549 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 278,627 patients — 76.05% of all known persons 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 1,028,230 lives and infected 34,519,817 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 25,691,112 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
