Bangladesh has registered 1,014 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally so far to 513,510.
The death toll climbed to 7,559 after 28 fatalities were recorded in a 24-hour time frame until Thursday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
Another 1,389 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care; it brought the total recovery count to 457,459.
Of the 28 deceased — 21 men and seven women — 22 were from Dhaka Division, three from Chittagong and one each from Barisal, Mymensingh and Rangpur.
Twenty-six of them died at different hospitals in the country while two died at home.
So far, 5,754 men (76.12%) and 1,805 women (23.88%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected stood at 1.47%.
The DGHS said 13,204 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the 24-hour time frame.
As many as 13,254 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 180 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,014 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 7.65%.
To date, 3,227,598 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 15.91%.
Up to this point, 457,459 patients — 89.08% 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 1,814,728 lives and infected 83,184,946 people across the world till Thursday evening, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 58,963,276 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.