Bangladesh logged an additional 26 deaths and 1,773 infections from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on Monday, counting the death toll to 8,571 and infections to 559,168.
Among the deceased, 21 were male and five female patients.
A Directorate General of Health Services release came up with the latest COVID-19 data.
Some 18,695 specimens were tested in the timeline at 219 labs across the country.
Bangladesh had tested a total of 42,83,246 specimens as of March 15.
A total of 1,432 patients were declared free from novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours totalling the recovery to 513,127.
Bangladesh on March 8, 2020 reported the first COVID-19 positive cases while the first death was logged ten days later on March 18, 2020.
