Fatalities from the coronavirus infection have topped the grave 7,500-mark in Bangladesh as 30 more people succumbed to infections from the deadly virus in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
With the latest figure, the number of total fatalities now stands at 7,509, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its daily virus update on Tuesday afternoon.
It took Bangladesh 287 days to reach the grim feat, 270 days to surpass the 7,000 body count and 232 days to top the 6,000 mark since confirming the first Covid-19 fatality on March 18.
The country took 34 days to cross the first 100 death threshold; 69 days to 500; 85 days or almost three months for 1,000; 110 days to 2,000; and 133 days or around three-and-a-half months to 3,000.
The 4,000th and 5,000th deaths came in 161 and 189 days respectively.
Meanwhile, another 1,181 people tested positive for the virus over the same 24 hours, pushing up the tally to 511,261.
Of the 30 deceased – 19 men and 11 women – 19 were from Dhaka division, six from Chittagong, three from Khulna, and one each from Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 5,717 men (76.13%) and 1,792 women (23.87%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 4,118 have died in Dhaka division, 1,402 in Chittagong, 432 in Rajshahi, 529 in Khulna, 236 in Barisal, 290 in Sylhet, 338 in Rangpur, and 164 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.47%.
The health authorities said 1,245 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 454,563 patients – 88.91% – have made full recovery across the country.
As many as 14,588 samples, including pending ones, were tested in the 167 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 15.98%. The overall infection rate of the country stands at 8.1%.
Currently, 11,518 people are in isolation and 39,092 are quarantined.
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.
Global situation
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,783,861 lives and infected 81,761,237 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometers.
As many as 57,901,921 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
The US has recorded the most cases since the start of the pandemic with 19,781,718 followed by India with 10,224,797 and Brazil with 7,506,890.
Meanwhile, as many as 343,182 people died from Covid-19 so far in the US.
Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest outbreak, after the US and India.
Brazil reported 191,641 deaths from Covid-19 while death toll in India reached 148,190.