The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh continues to remain below 3% for the sixth consecutive day.
According to the daily coronavirus situation update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday, Bangladesh's Covid-19 test positivity rate dropped to 2.59 in the last 24 hours.
A total of 388 new infections were reported from 14,999 samples tested in the 24 hours till Wednesday morning.
At the same time, 10 people have died across the country from the infection, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,239.
The DGHS update said a total of 14,402 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 206 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate in the country stands at 14.22% from 3,792,241 tests that have been conducted so far.
The total number of identified cases in the country stands at 5,39,153.
Meanwhile, a total of 717 patients have successfully recovered from the infection across the country, taking the total number of recovered case to 4,85,290.
The country's recovery rate now stands at 90.01%.
Of the new deaths -- seven male and three female -- six were from Dhaka, one from Chittagong, one from Rangpur, and two from Mymensingh.
All the victims died at hospitals.
So far, 6,243 men (75.77%) and 1,996 women (24.23%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected in the country stands at 1.53%.
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 named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus had claimed 2,352,883 lives and infected 107,469,898 people across the world till Wednesday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 79,400,992 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.