Bangladesh recorded 30 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recorded coronavirus fatalities to 5,405.
The country also logged more than 371,000 coronavirus cases with 1,499 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 371,631.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Tuesday.
Of the 30 deceased, including 20 men, 19 were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, two each from Khulna, Barisal and Rangpur, and one from Sylhet division.
So far, 4,175 men (77.24%) and 1,230 women (22.76%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%.
The DGHS said 12,398 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 12,345 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 1,499 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.14%.
To date, 2,013,776 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.45% so far.
The health authorities said 1,651 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 284,833 patients — 76.64% 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 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 1,046,542 lives and infected 35,735,411 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 26,894,653 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.