Bangladesh logged an additional 13 deaths and 438 infections from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on Wednesday, counting the death toll to 8,162 and infections to 536,545.
Among the deceased, 11 were male and two female patients.
A Directorate General of Health Services release came up with the latest COVID-19 data.
Some 14,985 specimens were tested in the timeline at 206 labs across the country.
Bangladesh had tested a total of 36,93,634 specimens as of February 3.
A total of 578 patients were declared free from novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours totalling the recovery to 481,306.
Bangladesh on March 8 reported the first COVID-19 positive cases while the first death was logged ten days later on March 18.
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