The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh continues to remain below 3% for the third consecutive day after going over the mark for a day.
According to the daily coronavirus situation update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday, Bangladesh's Covid-19 test positivity rate dropped to 2.68 in the last 24 hours.
The infection rate rose to 3.15% on Monday, after remaining below the mark for 10 days straight.
A total of 391 new infections were reported from 14,603 samples tested in the 24 hours till Thursday morning.
At the same time, 15 people have died across the country from the infection, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,329.
The DGHS update said a total of 14,742 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 214 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate in the country stands at 13.87% from 3,908,257 tests that have been conducted so far.
The total number of identified cases in the country stands at 542,268.
Meanwhile, a total of 678 patients have successfully recovered from the infection across the country, taking the total number of recovered case to 489,932.
The country's recovery rate now stands at 90.35%.
Of the 15 deaths – 12 males and three females --11 were from Dhaka, two from Chittagong, and one each from Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions.
All the victims died at hospitals.
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So far, 6,305 men (75.70%) and 2,024 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 2,442,672 lives and infected 110,497,898 people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 85,392,750 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.