Bangladesh has registered 44 deaths from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning – the highest daily figure since May 10.
With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 12,913 in the country.
With 2,322 people testing positive over the same period – the highest since April 29 – the number of total infections rose to 815,282.
This is the first time since May 1 that daily infections crossed the grim 2,000 mark.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.12%. As many as 19,165 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 510 authorized labs – government and private – across the country.
To date, 6,086,207 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 13.40%.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Tuesday.
Of the 44 deceased – 27 men and 17 women – 11 each from Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, seven from Chittagong, six from Khulna, five from Rangpur, and two each from Sylhet and Mymensingh divisions.
Forty died while undergoing treatment at the different hospitals of the country while four died at home.
Twenty-six of the deceased patients were aged above 60, 10 between 51 and 60, three between 41 and 50, four aged between 31 and 40, and one was aged between 11 and 20.
So far, 9,302 men (72.04%) and 3,611 women (27.96%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
Since the beginning, 7,247 people have died in Dhaka division, 2,475 in Chittagong, 738 in Rajshahi, 825 in Khulna, 389 in Barisal, 479 in Sylhet, 493 in Rangpur, and 267 in Mymensingh.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.58%.
The health authorities said 2,062 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 755,302 patients – 92.64% – have made full recovery across the country.
Currently, 21,733 people are in isolation and 44,906 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 more than 3,753,000 lives and infected as many as 174,422,000 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to worldometer.
As many as 157,696,000 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.