Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh has crossed the 100,000-mark, with 3,803 new cases detected in the last 24 hours.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 102,292.
The country also recorded 38 new deaths within the same period of time. With the latest figures, the country's Covid-19 death toll has risen to 1,343.
DGHS Additional Director General (administration) Prof Nasima Sultana revealed the latest figures in a daily online bulletin on the Covid-19 pandemic on Thursday.
Coronavirus will stay in Bangladesh for two to three years, said DGHS Director General Abul Kalam Azad in the online bulletin.
Fatality rate 1.31%
Prof Nasima said of the deceased 31 were men and seven were women. The death toll accounts for 1.31% of the total infected.
Previously on Wednesday, Bangladesh for the first time crossed the 4,000 mark by recording 4,008 new cases of Covid-19 across the country.
On June 16, the country also recorded 53 deaths from the deadly Covid-19 infection, the highest number of deaths recorded in the country in a single day, till date.
Deaths from the coronavirus infection crossed the 1,000 mark in Bangladesh on June 10 while the country recorded the first fatality on March 18. The country crossed the 100 mark in deaths on April 20.
23.39% test positive in 24hrs
The DGHS official said as many as 17,349 samples were collected between Wednesday and Thursday.
Of those, 16,259 samples were tested in authorized labs across the country and 3,803 of them or 23.39% tested Covid-19 positive, she said.
In all, 567,503 tests have been conducted so far, she added.
Recovery rate 39.26%
In the briefing, the DGHS officials also said that 1,975 more Covid-19 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours.
So far, 40,164 people – 39.26% of all infected – have made full recovery after being infected by the deadly virus.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first case of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by the new strain of coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2. The virus broke out in China's Wuhan in December 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
Till now the fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 451,700 lives and infected more than 8,419,110 people globally, according to worldometer.
As many as 4,430,960 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the world.