Bangladesh has registered 24 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,524.
The country also logged more than 378,000 coronavirus cases with 1,193 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 378,266, according to the daily virus update released on Sunday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 24 deceased -- 19 men and five women -- 17 were from Dhaka division, two each from Chittagong and Khulna, and one each from Sylhet, Rangpur, and Mymensingh divisions.
Among the victims, 23 died at different hospitals in the country and one at home.
So far, 4,256 men (77.05%) and 1,268 women (22.95%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.46%.
The DGHS said 9,504 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 9,467 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,193 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.60%.
To date, 2,070,995 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.26% so far.
The health authorities said 1,495 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 292,860 patients — 77.42% 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 1,078,110 lives and infected 37,514,666 people across the world till Sunday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
