Bangladesh has recorded 32 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 4,479.
The country also logged more than 325,000 coronavirus cases with 1,592 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 325,157.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Sunday.
Of the 32 deceased, including 25 men, 17 were from Dhaka division, four each from Chittagong and Khulna, three from Sylhet, two from Rajshahi, and one each from Barisal and Rangpur divisions.
So far, 3,504 men (78.23%) and 975 women (21.77%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.38%.
The DGHS said 11,224 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 11,354 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 93 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country and 1,592 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 14.02%.
To date, 1,629,312 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 19.96% so far.
The health authorities said 3,423 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 221,275 patients — 68.05% 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 884,106 lives and infected 27,086,797 people across the world till Sunday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 19,208,208 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
