Bangladesh has registered 3,737 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours — the highest single-day cases reported in the country in over eight months.
The last time more cases were recorded in a single day was on July 2 when 4,019 people tested positive for the deadly virus.
With the fresh cases, the total number of Covid-19 cases now stands at 588,132.
Meanwhile, the daily infection rate climbed up to 13.69%, which was 13.26% a day before.
The country also recorded 33 fresh Covid-19 deaths between Thursday and Friday mornings, taking the total death toll to 8,830, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
Of the 33 deceased — 21 men and 12 women — 26 were from Dhaka Division, six from Chittagong and one from Rajshahi.
Thirty-two of them died at different hospitals across the country while one died at home.
So far, 6,671 men (75.55%) and 2,159 women (24.45%) have died of Covid-19 in the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.5%.
The DGHS said 2,057 people recovered from Covid-19 over the preceding 24 hours.
Up till now, 531,951 patients — 90.45% — have recovered from the disease caused by coronavirus.
As many as 27,299 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 224 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
On March 8, 2020, 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 in 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 2,769,600 lives and infected 126,203,857 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 101,822,657 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 221 countries and territories across the planet.