Bangladesh has registered 29 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 4,412.
The country also logged more than 321,000 coronavirus cases with 1,929 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 321,615.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Friday.
Of the 29 deceased, including 22 men, 14 were from Dhaka division, four from Rajshahi, three from Barisal, and two each from Chittagong, Khulna, Rangpur, and Mymensingh divisions.
So far, 3,454 men (78.29%) and 958 women (21.71%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.37%.
The DGHS said 13,369 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 13,073 samples were tested in the 93 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 1,929 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 14.76%.
To date, 1,605,111 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 20.04% so far.
The health authorities said 2,211 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 216,191 patients — 67.22% 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 potentially severe 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 873,786 lives and infected 26,500,317 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 18,682,348 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.