Bangladesh has witnessed 32 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 6,906.
The country also logged more than 481,000 coronavirus cases with 2,202 people testing positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 481,945, according to the daily virus update released on Tuesday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 32 deceased -- 25 men and seven women -- 23 were from Dhaka division, six from Chittagong, and one each from Barisal, Sylhet, and Rangpur divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 5,280 men (76.45%) and 1,626 women (23.55%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.43%.
The DGHS said 17,200 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 17,084 samples were tested in the 137 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 2,202 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 12.89%.
To date, 2,894,622 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 16.65% so far.
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The health authorities said 2,571 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 401,194 patients — 83.24% 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 1,552,203 lives and infected 68,012,743 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 47,105,562 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.
