Covid claimed the lives of 21 more people and infected 703 others in Bangladesh in 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 27,635 and infections to 15,60,155 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 2.88 per cent.
Among the deceased, nine are male and 12 are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 24,376 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country at 821 laboratories while Bangladesh had tested 98,69,293 samples as of October 6.
In the past 24 hours, 817 patients recovered from the viral disease totaling the recovery to 15,21,113.
In the case of the divisions, each of Dhaka and Chattogram divisions logged the death toll eight people.
