Bangladesh has witnessed 22 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,577.
The country also logged more than 381,000 coronavirus cases with 1,537 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 381,275, according to the daily virus update released on Tuesday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 22 deceased -- 17 men and five women -- 15 were from Dhaka division, five from Chittagong, and two from Rangpur division.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,292 men (76.96%) and 1,285 women (23.04%) 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 14,021 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 13,815 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,537 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.13%.
To date, 2,098,037 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.17% so far.
The health authorities said 1,482 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 295,873 patients — 77.60% 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 1,086,078 lives and infected 38,090,071 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 28,630,697 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.
