The daily percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 in Bangladesh has remained below 4% for the last seven days.
Till Monday morning, 443 infections were reported in a 24-hour span with the daily test positivity rate standing at 3.55%, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), released in the afternoon.
The daily infection rate was 3.02% on Sunday.
On January 25, the daily test positivity rate inched above 4% and stood at 4.06%.
The country is now showing a trend of single-digit percentage in test positivity rate for over six weeks as the health authorities reported 10.30% infection rate on December 19 last year.
With the latest infections, the number of all confirmed cases jumped to 535,582, the DGHS said.
The press release said 12,556 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
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As many as 12,475 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 206 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
To date, 3,664,197 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 14.62% so far.
Meanwhile, the country has also registered 10 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,137.
Of the deceased -- nine men and one woman -- seven were from Dhaka division, and one each from Chittagong, Barisal, and Sylhet divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 6,166 men (75.78%) and 1,971 women (24.22%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.52%.
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The DGHS said 472 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 480,216 patients — 89.66% 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 2,239,043 lives and infected 103,582,807 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 75,205,464 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.