Bangladesh recorded 15 more deaths and 3,929 new cases in the 24 hours till 8am on Wednesday.
As many as 31,877 samples were tested across the country yielding a daily positivity rate of 12.20%, according to a bulletin issued by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The latest development puts the country’s total fatalities to 28,887 and total caseload to 1,923,031.
The country has been witnessing a downtrend in terms of infections for the last nine days straight.
The experts said Covid-19 infections caused by the Omicron variant peaked quickly and it is going to wear out quickly as well.
As many as 12,757 people recovered from the highly infectious disease, taking the total recoveries to 1,716,066.
The recovery rate stands at 89.24% while the mortality rate stands at 1.5%.
Of the 15 deaths reported in the 24 hours to 8am, 10 were males and the rest females.
Dhaka, the epicentre of the virus, logged 2,614 cases and accounted for five of the deaths.
Chittagong division logged four fatalities and Khulna two while Rajshahi, Rangpur, Barisal, and Sylhet divisions each counted one.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 26.28 on Monday.
Health Minister Zahid Maleque recently said the Covid-19 situation in the country is under control citing the declining Covid cases and infection rate.
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.
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 5.8 million lives and infected over 416 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 339 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.