Bangladesh has registered 45 new deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total body count to 4,127.
The country also confirmed 304,583 total infections with 2,436 people testing positive in the last 24 hours.
According to the press release sent by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday afternoon, the recovery count rose to 193,458 – 63.52% -- after another 3,275 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period.
Of the 45 deceased – 34 men and 11 women -- 22 were from Dhaka division, 10 from Chittagong, six from Rangpur, five from Khulna and one each from Rajshahi and Sylhet.
Among the victims, 42 died at different hospitals and three at home.
So far, 3,242 men (78.56%) and 885 women (21.44%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.35%.
The DGHS said 15,501 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 15,124 samples were tested in the 92 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country.
Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 16.11% tested positive, while 20.30% cases were detected from the total tests conducted so far, the release added.
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 last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 830,197 lives and infected 24,359,548 people across the world till 4pm on Thursday, according to Worldometer.
As many as 16,893,457 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the globe.