Bangladesh has registered 27 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 7,626.
The country also logged more than 516,000 coronavirus cases with 835 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 516,019, according to the daily virus update released on Sunday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 27 deceased -- 16 men and 11 women -- 15 were from Dhaka division, four from Rajshahi, three from Rangpur, two each from Sylhet and Mymensingh, and one from Khulna division.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 5,797 men (76.02%) and 1,829 women (23.98%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.48%.
The DGHS said 10,867 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
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As many as 10,925 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 180 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 835 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 7.64%.
To date, 3,260,327 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 15.83% so far.
The health authorities said 978 people recuperated from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 460,598 patients — 89.26% 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 of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,844,848 lives and infected 85,032,215 people across the world till Sunday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 60,163,279 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.