Covid claimed the lives of seven more people and infected 645 others in Bangladesh in 24 hours ending Friday morning.
This was the lowest single-day Covid deaths in seven months, said officials at Directorate General of Health Services.
The country had on March 11 reported deaths of six people due to Covid infection.
With the statistics on Friday, the total death toll hits 27,654 and infections to 15,61,463 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 2.77 per cent.
Among the deceased, three are male and four are female patients.
The Directorate General of Health Services came up with the latest statistics on its daily Covid press release.
A total of 23,302 samples have been tested during the reporting period across the country at 821 laboratories while Bangladesh had tested 99,14,916 samples as of October 8.
In the past 24 hours, 814 patients recovered from the viral disease totaling the recovery to 15,22,591.
In the case of the divisions, each of the Dhaka and Chattogram divisions logged the death toll of three people and the rest one died in Rangpur division.
