Bangladesh has registered 30 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Monday morning. With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 12,869 in the country.
With 1,970 people testing positive over the same period, the number of total infections rose to 812,960.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Monday.
Of the 30 deceased – 19 men and 11 women – seven were from Dhaka division; 11 from Chittagong; four from Sylhet; three from Khulna; two each from Rajshahi and Mymensingh; and one from Rangpur division.
Of them, 17 patients died in government hospitals, 10 in private hospitals, and three at home.
Twenty-two of the deceased patients were aged above 60, two aged between 51 and 60, and three each in the 41-50 and 31-40 age group.
So far, 9,275 men (72.07%) and 3,594 women (27.93%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 7,236 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,468 in Chittagong, 727 in Rajshahi, 819 in Khulna, 389 in Barisal, 477 in Sylhet, 488 in Rangpur, and 265 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.58%.
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The health authorities said 1,918 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 753,240 patients – 92.65% – have made full recovery across the country.
As many as 17,169 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 510 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.47%. The overall infection rate of the country stands at 13.4%.
Currently, 21,205 people are in isolation and 44,513 are quarantined.
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, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 3,744,973 lives and infected 174,087,927 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 157,107,787 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.