Bangladesh has registered 23 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,348.
The country also logged more than 368,000 coronavirus cases with 1,125 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 368,690, according to the daily virus update released on Sunday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 23 deceased -- 17 men and six women -- 17 were from Dhaka division, two from Rangpur, and one each from Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Sylhet divisions.
Among the victims, 22 died at different hospitals in the country and one at home.
So far, 4,138 men (77.37%) and 1,210 women (22.63%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%.
The DGHS said 9,739 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 9,859 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,125 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.41%.
To date, 1,989,664 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.53% so far.
The health authorities said 1,587 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 281,656 patients — 76.39% 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 1,038,589 lives and infected 35,176,348 people across the world till Sunday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 26,163,328 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.
