A total of 133 police personnel have recovered in the last 24 hours, which is the highest recovery rate.
A total of 298 policemen have made full recoveries from the previous day’s 165, sources at police headquarters said.
Besides, 122 were infected at the time, taking the total number to 1,878.
Of them, 55 are from Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
The number of total infected policemen at DMP is 865.
A further 4,961 policemen are being kept in quarantine, and 1,159 in isolation.
Seven have died of Covid-19 till date.
Members of Bangladesh Police, Armed forces, and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), along with other agencies have been jointly working to enforce social distancing measures across the country.
Meanwhile, 345 members of Armed Forces both in-service and retired military/civilian members and their families, have been admitted to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) with coronavirus infection as of Monday.
Among them, 88 have made full recovery, six have died and all other patients admitted to the hospital are healthy, said a media release of Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) Directorate.
Even though the government extended the general holidays until May 16, businessmen have been permitted to keep shopping malls, markets open considering Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr from Sunday.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Police recently hired 250-bed Impulse Hospital in the capital for the treatment of coronavirus-infected police members.
The country has so far reported 15,691 coronavirus cases and 239 deaths.
