Bangladesh has registered 32 new deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the total body count to 4,383.
The country also confirmed 319,686 total infections with 2,158 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 213,980 – 66.93% -- after another 2,964 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period.
Of the 32 deceased – 24 men and eight women -- 15 were from Dhaka division, seven from Chittagong, six from Rangpur, three from Sylhet and one from Mymensingh.
Among the victims, 31 died at different hospitals and one at home.
So far, 3,432 men (78.30%) and 951 women (21.70%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.37%.
The DGHS said 14,617 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 14,422 samples were tested in the 93 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country.
Of the total sample tests in the past 24 hours, 14.96% tested positive, while 20.08% 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 867,788 lives and infected 26,199,981 people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 18,460,359 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the globe.