Bangladesh recorded six more deaths from Covid-19 and 294 new cases in the 24 hours between 8am Wednesday and 8am Thursday.
During the same period, 227 patients also recovered across the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The latest data took the nation’s Covid-19 death toll to 27,847, total caseload to 1,568,857, and total recoveries to 1,532,695.
Some 19,535 samples were tested in the same 24 hours at 833 labs around the country, yielding a positivity rate of 1.50%.
Since March last year, when the country’s first cases were detected, a total of 10,301,593 samples have been tested -- yielding a 15.23 overall positivity rate.
The mortality rate currently stands at 1.77% while the recovery rate remains at 97.70%
Between Wednesday and Thursday mornings, four deaths were reported in Dhaka Division and two in Chittagong. No deaths were reported in any other divisions of the country.
Of the six deceased, three were men and three were women.
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According to DGHS, of the total 27,847 fatalities, 12,141 deaths occurred in Dhaka Division, 5,654 in Chittagong, 2,042 in Rajshahi, 3,595 in Khulna, 945 in Barisal, 1,264 in Sylhet, 1,363 in Rangpur, and 843 in Mymensingh Division.
Bangladesh has been witnessing infection rates below or around 2% for the past few weeks. The country last recorded an infection rate of over 3% on October 4 when the figure stood at 3.19%.
However, according to experts, this should not be a reason for complacency, as many countries are seeing a surge in infections yet again.
Furthermore, researchers have identified a new variant, known as the new Delta Plus or AY 4.2 variant of coronavirus, in neighbouring India. The new Delta Plus variant is already causing a rise in infections in the UK and Israel.
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.
Until Thursday evening, the fast-spreading virus claimed over 4.99 million lives after infecting more than 245.9 million people throughout the world, according to worldometer.
At the same time, more than 222.89 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 221 countries and territories across the planet.