Bangladesh has witnessed 27 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,375.
The country also logged more than 370,000 coronavirus cases with 1,442 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 370,132, according to the daily virus update released on Monday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 27 deceased -- 17 men and 10 women -- 18 were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, three from Khulna, and one each from Rajshahi and Barisal divisions.
Among the victims, 25 died at different hospitals in the country and two at homes.
So far, 4,155 men (77.30%) and 1,220 women (22.70%) 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 11,809 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 11,767 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,442 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.25%.
To date, 2,001,431 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.49% so far.
The health authorities said 1,526 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 283,182 patients — 76.51% 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 1,042,344 lives and infected 35,437,479 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 26,645,438 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.