The death toll from coronavirus infection has crossed 4,000 mark in Bangladesh as 45 more people have died of the deadly virus in the past 24 hours.
With the latest toll, the number of total fatalities rose to 4,028.
The country reached the grim milestone on Tuesday, four weeks after the body count reached the 3,000 mark on July 28. The number of fatalities crossed the 2,000 mark on July 5.
Covid-19 deaths in Bangladesh crossed the 1,000 mark on June 10 in nearly three months since the first fatality was recorded on March 18.
Meanwhile, the country registered more than 299,000 Covid-19 cases with 2,545 people having tested positive in the past 24 hours.
With the development, the number of total confirmed cases jumped to 299,628.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Tuesday.
Of the 45 deceased, including 32 men, 25 were from Dhaka division, nine from Chittagong, four from Khulna, two each from Rajshahi, Barisal, and Mymensingh, and one from Rangpur division.
So far, 3,169 men (78.67%) and 859 women (21.33%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.34%.
The DGHS said 14,788 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 14,153 samples were tested in the 91 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 2,545 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 17.98%.
To date, 1,470,191 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 20.38% so far.
The health authorities said 3,881 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 186,756 patients — 62.33% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 817,606 lives and infected 23,836,657 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 16,379,760 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.