Bangladesh has recorded 36 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,129.
The country also logged more than 357,000 coronavirus cases with 1,106 people testing positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 357,873.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) revealed the latest figures on Covid-19 in the country with a press release on Saturday.
Of the 36 deceased, including 25 men, 23 were from Dhaka division, eight from Chittagong, two from Sylhet, and one each from Khulna, Barisal, and Mymensingh divisions.
Of the victims, 35 died at different hospitals and one at home.
So far, 3,974 men (77.48%) and 1,155 women (22.52%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.43%.
The DGHS said 10,680 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 10,765 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 104 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,106 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 10.27%.
To date, 1,898,775 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.85% so far.
The health authorities said 1,753 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 268,777 patients — 75.10% 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 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 994,081 lives and infected 32,797,744 people across the world till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 24,195,830 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
