With the coronavirus pandemic ripping through the country, yet another 29 people died of Covid-19 in the 24 hours till yesterday afternoon.
With these figures, the death toll from the deadly viral disease surged to 1,997.
Additionally, another 3,288 coronavirus positive cases were confirmed in the 24 hours, pushing up the tally to 159,769.
Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), revealed the figures at the daily health bulletin yesterday afternoon.
Some 13,871 samples were collected by 64 labs across the country. But with the impending ones, at least 14,727 samples were tested, she said.
Updates on testing suspected Covid-19 samples in the other seven labs were not disclosed at the briefing.
The DGHS official said, considering the samples tested in the 24-hour span, the infection rate stood at 22.33%.
Till date, no fewer than 835,074 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to a whopping 19.19% infection rate as yet.
Meanwhile, the tally of total recoveries soared to 70,721 as 2,673 people were cured of the virus anew.
Therefore, with a total of 70,721 patients, 44.29% of all those infected made a full recovery around the country, since the first Covid-19 cases were recorded on March 8.
Lowest single-day body count in 30 days
The latest death toll is the lowest of its kind since June 5 when 30 patients died.
Bangladesh recorded the highest number of deaths with 64 fatalities on June 30.
Interestingly, the new cases tally was the second lowest on the day after the lowest. In nearly three weeks, the lowest number of cases was 3,114, on Friday.
Of the 29 new deceased, 21 were men and eight were women.
Twenty-five died in different hospitals and one at home, while three died on the way to hospital.
Of the total, nine died in Dhaka division, seven in Rajshahi, four in Chittagong, three each in Khulna and Sylhet, two in Barisal and one in Mymensingh, said Prof Nasima Sultana.
She added that the mortality rate was 1.25% against the total number of cases detected so far.
Two of the deceased were in their 80s, one in the 70s and 30s each, with another aged below 20.
The highest number, 11 patients, died from the 61-70 age group, followed by nine from the 51-60 age group. Four of the victims were aged between 41 and 50.
Breakdown of every 500 deaths
Bangladesh is just three fatalities away from striking the grim 2,000-death mark.
Though the country saw its first coronavirus casualty on March 18, the death toll has kept on rising steadily ever since.
The death tally crossed 500 on May 25 and 1,000 on June 11.
Alarmingly, the next 500 deaths occurred in just 11 days as the toll climbed to 1,500 on June 22.