Bangladesh has registered 17 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,477.
The latest single-day death toll is the lowest since May 28 when the figure stood at 15.
The country also logged more than 375,000 coronavirus cases with 1,278 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 375,870, according to the daily virus update released on Friday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 17 deceased, including nine men, 12 were from Dhaka division, two from Khulna, and one each from Chittagong, Rangpur, and Mymensingh divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,222 men (77.09%) and 1,255 women (22.91%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far, stands at 1.46%.
The DGHS said 11,506 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 11,256 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,278 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.35%.
To date, 2,050,669 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.33% so far.
The health authorities said 1,596 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 289,912 patients — 77.13% 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 1,067,469 lives and infected 36,792,906 people across the world till Friday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 27,691,035 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.
