The death toll from coronavirus infection has crossed 4,500 in Bangladesh as 37 more people have died of the deadly virus in the past 24 hours.
With the latest toll, the number of total fatalities rose to 4,516.
The country reached the grim milestone on Monday, 12 days after the body count reached the 4,000 mark on August 25.
The number of fatalities crossed the 2,000 mark on July 5.
Covid-19 deaths in Bangladesh crossed the 1,000 mark on June 10 in nearly three months since the first fatality was recorded on March 18.
Meanwhile, the country registered more than 327,000 Covid-19 cases with 2,202 people testing positive in the past 24 hours.
With the development, the number of total confirmed cases jumped to 327,359, according to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday.
Of the 37 deceased, including 30 men and seven women, 13 were from Dhaka division, seven from Rangpur, six from Chittagong, four from Sylhet, three from Khulna, two from Rajshahi, and one each from Mymensingh, and Barisal divisions.
Among the victims, 31 died at different hospitals and six at home.
So far, 3,534 men (78.26%) and 982 women (21.74%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.38%.
The DGHS said 15,488 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 15,412 samples, including the pending ones, were tested in the 93 authorized labs -- government and private -- across the country.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 14.29%.
To date, 1,644,724 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 19.90% so far.
The health authorities said 3,298 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 224,573 patients — 68.60% 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 more than 893,000 lives and infected over 27,312,000 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to worldometer.
As many as 19,383,000 people have recovered from the deadly virus which has spread to 213 countries and territories across the planet.
