Bangladesh has witnessed a jump in the daily Covid-19 infection rate, with 10.45% of tests conducted in the previous 24 hours coming back positive.
The health authorities on Thursday recorded the highest daily infection rate in the last three months.
On Wednesday and Tuesday, the daily infection rate stood at 7.68% and 8.29% respectively.
On Monday, the infection rate increased to 9.48%, which was the highest since December 21, when the rate was 9.38%.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh recorded its highest daily caseload in over three months as the health authorities reported 2,187 fresh cases in the last 24 hours till Thursday morning.
The last time daily Covid-19 cases crossed the 2,000 mark was on December 9 (2,159).
With the fresh infections, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 564,939.
The country also logged 16 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,624.
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The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country through a press release on Thursday afternoon.
It said 21,212 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 20,925 samples were tested in the 219 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
To date, 4,349,194 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 12.99% so far.
Of the 16 deceased -- 12 men and four women -- 13 were from Dhaka division, and one each from Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 6,521 men (75.61%) and 2,103 women (24.39%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.53%.
The DGHS said 1,534 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 517,523 patients — 91.61% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, the 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 country also recorded its first fatality on March 18.
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 2,694,724 lives and infected 121,924,515 people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 98,263,179 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.