Bangladesh’s Covid-19 caseload rose by 2,710 in the 24 hours between 8am on Sunday and 8am on Monday, while the health authorities reported 65 more deaths.
The additions took the Covid-19 death toll to 26,628 and the total caseload to 1,517,166 since the pandemic hit the country in March last year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The number of new cases also kept the daily test positivity rate below 10% for the third consecutive day.
The DGHS reported a 9.82% infection rate after testing 27,595 samples across the country between Sunday and Monday mornings.
While the overall mortality rate stood at 1.76% on Monday morning, some 4,124 Covid-19 patients also recovered during the same period -- taking the total number of recoveries to 1,455,187.
The seven-day moving average of daily deaths in Bangladesh dropped further to 74.14 on Monday.
Dhaka counted 17 deaths, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Chittagong with 13 fatalities.
Ten deaths each were reported in Khulna and Sylhet, six in Rajshahi, four in Rangpur, three in Barisal and two in Mymensingh.
All 65 of them died at different hospitals throughout the country.
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Of the new patients, Dhaka logged 1,667 cases, the highest among the divisions, followed by Chittagong with 404.
The infection rate against all tests conducted in the country to date stands at 16.69%, while the latest figures have put the recovery rate at 95.91%.
Around 19.08 million people in the country have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine; of them, some 8.52 million have taken both doses, latest DGHS data show.
The countrywide Covid-19 restrictions imposed after Eid-ul-Azha were eased soon afterwards from August 11, much to the dismay of public health experts.
They fear the recent downward trend in Covid-19 infections and deaths is only temporary and another wave of the pandemic may be just around the corner.
Health professionals dread that while the infection rate may drop to as low as 10% by mid-September, it will start spiking again after that.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8 last year. The first death was reported 10 days later.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 4.58 million lives and infected more than 221.64 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 198.19 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 222 countries and territories across the planet.