COVID-19 fatalities in Bangladesh surged to 7,559 with 28 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until Sunday morning.
The mortality rate stood at 1.47 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
Besides, 1,014 new cases pushed the caseload to 513,510.
So far, 457,459 patients – 89.08 per cent, with 1,389 new ones, had recovered.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 500,000-mark on December 20.
The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 7,000 on December 12.
Until now, 32,27,598 tests had been carried out, including 13,204 new ones. So far, 15.91 per cent of the tests turned out to be positive.
Bangladesh is seeing 3015.21 infections, 2,686.09 recoveries and 44.38 deaths per million, the DGHS said.
The government had been warning of a second wave of COVID-19 in winter and urging people to properly follow health safety measures. It had adopted a ‘no mask, no service’ policy.
On Monday, the government announced that the country would get COVID-19 vaccines for some 45 million people by May-June next year.
