The health authorities in Bangladesh recorded one death from Covid-19 and 16 infections in 24 hours to Saturday morning.
The country last recorded death from Covid-19 on April 20.
Besides, another 172 patients recovered from the infectious disease, taking the recovery rate to 97.31%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
The latest additions took the country’s total caseload to 1,953,204 and the total number of recoveries to 1,900,747, while the death toll remained unchanged at 29,128.
A total of 3,927 samples were tested across the country during the 24-hour period, yielding a positivity rate of 0.41%.
On Friday, 50 coronavirus cases were detected in the country.
The country reported its first zero death from Covid in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 infections, since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
