Covid claimed lives of 89 more people and infected 3,948 more in Bangladesh in 24 hours ending Sunday morning.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 26,015 and infections to 14,93,537 since the country 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 14.14 per cent.
Among the deceased, 41 are male and 48 are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 27,921 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country at 789 laboratories while Bangladesh had tested 88,69,393 samples as of August 29.
In the past 24 hours, 6,446 patients recovered from the viral disease totaling the recovery to 14,15,697.
In case of the divisions, Dhaka logged the highest death toll of 27 and Chattogram logged 21 deaths.
