Bangladesh has registered 25 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,966.
The country also logged more than 410,000 coronavirus cases with 1,736 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 410,988, according to the daily virus update released on Monday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 25 deceased -- 20 men and five women -- 15 were from Dhaka division, three each from Chittagong and Sylhet, two from Khulna, and one each from Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,588 men (76.90%) and 1,378 women (23.10%) 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 12,785 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
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As many as 12,891 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 113 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,736 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 13.47%.
To date, 2,361,702 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 17.40% so far.
The health authorities said 1,961 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 327,901 patients — 79.78% 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 1,206,121 lives and infected 46,889,393 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 33,791,516 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 216 countries and territories across the planet.
