The death toll from the coronavirus infection has reached near 6,000 in Bangladesh as 17 more people died of the deadly virus in the past 24 hours until Tuesday morning.
With the latest figure, the number of total fatalities stood at 5,983.
Meanwhile, the country also logged more than 412,000 coronavirus cases with 1,659 people testing positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 412,647, according to the daily virus update released on Tuesday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 17 deceased, including 16 men, 11 were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, and two from Mymensingh division.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,604 men (76.95%) and 1,379 women (23.05%) 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 14,732 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 14,061 samples were tested in the 113 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,659 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.80%.
To date, 2,375,763 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 17.37% so far.
The health authorities said 1,886 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 329,787 patients — 79.92% 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 1,212,495 lives and infected 47,389,801 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 34,073,449 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 216 countries and territories across the planet.