The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh rose to 3.15% on Monday, after remaining below 3% for 10 days straight.
Bangladesh, meanwhile, recorded 11 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,285.
The country also logged more than 541,000 coronavirus cases with 446 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 541,038.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Monday.
A total of 14,138 samples were tested in the 24 hours till Sunday morning.
The DGHS update said a total of 13,974 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 210 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate in the country stands at 14.01% from 3,862,254 tests that have been conducted so far.
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Meanwhile, a total of 641 patients have successfully recovered from the infection across the country, taking the total number of recovered cases to 487,870.
The country's recovery rate now stands at 90.17%.
Of the new deaths – seven males and four females – seven were from Dhaka, one each from Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Sylhet divisions.
Ten of the victims died in different hospitals across the country while one died in their residence.
So far, 6,271 men (75.70%) and 2,014 women (24.30%) 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 2,412,714 lives and infected 109,446,439 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 81,543,537 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.