Bangladesh has registered 35 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 4,447.
The country also logged more than 323,000 coronavirus cases with 1,950 people testing positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 323,565.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Saturday.
Of the 35 deceased, 20 were from Dhaka division, six from Khulna, four from Chittagong, two from Rangpur, and one each from Barisal, Sylhet, and Mymensingh.
Twenty-five of the deceased were men, while 10 were women. So far, 3,479 men (78.23%) and 968 women (21.77%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.37%.
The DGHS said 12,318 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 12,847 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 93 authorized labs — government and private — across the country, and 1,950 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 15.18%.
To date, 1,617,958 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 20%.
The health authorities said 1,661 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 217,852 patients — 67.33% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a potentially severe 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 879,655 lives and infected 26,773,008 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 18,949,696 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.