Bangladesh has witnessed the highest daily deaths from Covid-19 in the last three months as 40 more people have died in the last 24 hours until Tuesday morning.
With the latest figure, the number of total fatalities rose to 7,129.
Earlier, the country recorded 40 deaths from the deadly virus on September 21 while 43 deaths on September 15.
On June 30, the health authorities reported the highest ever 64 deaths in a 24-hour span.
Meanwhile, the country also logged more than 494,000 coronavirus cases with 1,877 people testing positive over the past 24 hours.
With the latest development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 494,209, according to the daily virus update released on Tuesday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 40 deceased -- 26 men and 14 women -- 24 were from Dhaka division, 10 from Chittagong, two each from Rangpur and Mymensingh, and one each from Khulna and Sylhet divisions.
Among the victims, 39 died at different hospitals and one at home.
So far, 5,439 men (76.29%) and 1,690 women (23.71%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.44%.
Highest number of samples tested in 24 hours
The DGHS said 19,032 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as highest ever 19,054 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 140 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,877 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 9.85%.
To date, 3,005,512 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 16.44% so far.
The health authorities said 2,884 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 426,729 patients — 86.35% 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 1,630,029 lives and infected 73,270,606 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 51,413,632 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 218 countries and territories across the planet.
