Bangladesh on Tuesday logged another 56 deaths and 2,639 cases in the last 24 hours.
With this, the death toll has reached 26,684 and the total cases tally stands at 1,519,805.
The infection rate has remained below 10% for the fourth consecutive day, at 9.69%.
The latest figures were published by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) through a bulletin on Tuesday.
The seven-day moving average of deaths is at 69.8 at present. It was 74.14 on Monday.
Another 27,233 samples were tested between Monday and Tuesday morning.
Of the deceased, 19 were male and 37 female. Twenty-seven of the deceased were above 60 years of age, 20 were between 51 and 60 years old, and nine of the deceased were below 50.
Dhaka counted 20 deaths, the highest among the eight divisions, followed by Chittagong with 15 fatalities. Six deaths were reported in Khulna and five in Sylhet, four in Barisal, three in Rajshahi, two in Rangpur, and one in Mymensingh.
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While the overall mortality rate stood at 1.76% on Tuesday morning, some 5,567 Covid-19 patients also recovered during the same period -- taking the total number of recoveries to 1,460,754.
Of the new cases, Dhaka logged 1,558 cases, the highest among the divisions, followed by Chittagong with 400.
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 96.11%.
Around 19.6 million people in the country have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine; of them, some 8.9 million have taken both doses, the 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.
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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 4.59 million lives and infected more than 222.1 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 198.7 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 222 countries and territories across the planet.