Bangladesh has registered 46 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 3,740.
Besides, the country also logged more than 282,000 coronavirus cases with 3,200 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 282,344.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Tuesday.
Of the 46 deceased, including 35 men, 23 were from Dhaka division, seven from Khulna, six from Chittagong, four from Rajshahi, three from Rangpur, two from Barisal, and one from Mymensingh division.
So far, 2,953 men (78.96%) and 787 women (21.04%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.32%.
The DGHS said 15,435 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 14,630 samples were tested in the 91 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 3,200 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 21.87%.
To date, 1,378,819 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 20.48% so far.
The health authorities said 3,234 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 162,825 patients — 57.67% of all infected — have made full recovery across the country.
On March 8, health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain which was later named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December last year and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 777,902 lives and infected 22,074,836 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 14,811,802 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
