Bangladesh recorded an additional Covid death of 178 more people and 6,885 infections in 24 hours until Saturday morning.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 23,988 and infections to 14,12,218 since it had recorded the first Covid infection on March 8, 2020, and death from the viral disease on March 18, 2020.
The daily test positivity rate is 20.66 per cent.
Among the deceased, 109 are male and 69 are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 33,330 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country at 707 laboratories while Bangladesh had tested 83,75,520 samples as of August 14.
In the past 24 hours, 7,805 patients recovered from the viral disease totaling the recovery to 12,81,327.
In case of the divisions, Dhaka logged the highest death toll of 67 and Chattogram logged 45 deaths.
