The health authorities have reported 29 deaths from the coronavirus on Sunday, taking the overall fatality of the pandemic to 28, 589.
The caseload rose by 8,345 to stand at 1,861,532, according to figures released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
As many 38,821 samples were tested in the 24 hours to 8am on Sunday for a test positivity rate of 21.5%.
The number of daily cases and infection rate has been on a downward trend for the last few days.
Nationwide another 8,159 people recovered from the disease, taking the total recovery to 1,602,550 with a rate of 86.09%.
With 30 new fatalities, the seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 32.28 on Sunday.
Among the new deceased, 15 were men and 14 women.
Fourteen deaths were reported in Dhaka division while four in Chittagong, three in Rangpur, two in Mymensingh, and one each in Sylhet and Rajshahi and divisions.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained the same as 1.54%.
In January, the country reported 322 deaths and 213,294 new cases while 19,112 recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s total tally of Omicron cases reached 106 with the report of 37 more cases till Sunday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
The health authorities marked 12 districts, including Dhaka, as red zones owing to their high infection rates between 10% and 29%.
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, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
Amid growing concerns over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 announced restrictions on movement of people and public transport vehicles. Schools and colleges went on a hiatus while government and private offices started operating with half manpower to curb the spread of the virus.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated, with the country crossing the landmark of administering 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on December 1, nearly 10 months after launching a nationwide campaign.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over 5.7 million lives and infected over 394 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 313 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.