Bangladesh reported 1,666 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours until early Sunday, pushing the country's infection tally to 477,545.
The health authority also recorded 31 more deaths from the disease during that time, bringing the fatalities to 6,838.
The mortality rate, however, is still 1.43%, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
Bangladesh is now the 26th worst-hit country in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
So far, 395, 960 patients – 82.92% – including 2,552 new ones in the last 24 hours have recovered.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 300,000-mark on August 26. The first death was reported on March 18, and the death toll exceeded 6,000 on November 4.
Up to now, 2,863,169 tests have been carried out, including 13,315 new ones, and 16.68% of the patients turned out to be positive. And the daily infection rate stood at 12.60%.
Bangladesh is experiencing 2804.03 infections, 2324.99 recoveries, and 40.15 deaths per million.
