In the last 24 hours, the country crossed the 63,000-mark in confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 2,635 people testing positive.
The percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 has also been rising in Bangladesh for three consecutive days and was 21.10% on Saturday.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far has jumped to 63,026.
The country has also recorded 35 more deaths from Covid-19 over the same period, taking the number of fatalities to 846.
Bangladesh reached these grim figures in the three months since its first cases were reported back in March.
The Additional Director General (Administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Prof Nasima Sultana, revealed the latest figures in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon through a daily online bulletin on the Covid-19 situation.
Of the deceased -- 28 men and seven women -- 20 were from Dhaka division, eight from Chittagong division, three from Rajshahi, and two each from Sylhet and Barisal divisions, she said.
Among the deceased, 25 died in hospitals, nine at home, and one was brought dead to a hospital, she said.
The death toll accounts for 1.34% of the total number of those infected.
Earlier, Bangladesh registered the highest number of Covid-19 deaths (40) in a single day on May 31. Deaths from coronavirus infection crossed the 800 mark in the country on June 5.
The country crossed the 100 mark in deaths on April 20.
Percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 on the rise
The daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 has been on the rise in Bangladesh for three consecutive days.
A total of 21.10% of people suspected to have been infected and who underwent tests reported positive with Covid-19 in the country on Saturday.
The test positivity percentage rate was 20.07% on Friday and 19.09% on Thursday.
The health authorities between Friday and Saturday morning tested 12,486 samples across the country. Of them 2,635 — or 21.10% — came back positive.
The daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 reached an all-time high, with nearly 23% of the total number of samples tested in a day, on Tuesday.
Until noon on Saturday, the country recorded over 63,000 Covid-19 cases and 846 deaths from the deadly disease.
Prof Nasima Sultana said in all, 384,851 tests had been conducted so far.
Of the total number of cases, 71% men and 29% women had tested positive so far, added Nasima Sultana.
On June 2, the country logged 2,911 Covid-19 cases, the highest in a 24-hour span, since the first cases were reported back in March.
521 more recover
At the briefing, the DGHS acting DG also said that 521 more Covid-19 patients had recovered from the infection in the preceding 24 hours.
So far 13,325 people (21.14% of all infected) have made full recovery after being infected by the novel coronavirus.
On March 8, the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first case of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by the new strain of coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2. The virus broke out in China's Wuhan in December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 398,551 lives and infected 6,866,364 people across the world till 3:15pm on Saturday, according to Worldometer.
As many as 3,362,441 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.