Bangladesh has witnessed 15 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 6,036.
The country also logged more than 417,000 coronavirus cases with 1,469 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 417,475, according to the daily virus update released on Friday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 15 deceased -- 11 men and four women -- eight were from Dhaka division, five from Chittagong, and one each from Rangpur and Mymensingh divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,646 men (76.97%) and 1,390 women (23.03%) 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 13,747 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
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As many as 13,521 samples were tested in the 114 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,469 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 10.86%.
To date, 2,418,423 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 17.26% so far.
The health authorities said 1,439 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 335,027 patients — 80.25% 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 1,241,143 lives and infected 49,122,480 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 35,038,682 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 216 countries and territories across the planet.