Bangladesh has reported 20 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, the lowest single-day body count since May 28.
The latest fatalities pushed the overall tally to 5,325 over the 24-hour span when 1,182 people tested positive, totalling more than 367,000 coronavirus cases in Bangladesh since March 8.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 367,565, according to the daily virus update released on Saturday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Death toll on any given day went past 20 for the first time on May 18 and since 28, the figure never dropped below that until Saturday's updated estimates. The country's highest death toll from Covid-19 was 64, which was recorded on June 30.
Of the 20 deceased, including 17 men, 12 were from Dhaka division, three each from Chittagong and Rangpur, and one each from Sylhet and Mymensingh divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals across the country.
So far, 4,121 men (77.39%) and 1,204 women (22.61%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%.
The DGHS said 9,312 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 9,554 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,182 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.37%.
To date, 1,979,805 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.57% so far.
The health authorities said 1,442 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 280,069 patients — 76.20% 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 1,033,778 lives and infected 34,863,422 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 25,913,991 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.