Bangladesh has registered 23 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 5,500.
The country also logged more than 377,000 coronavirus cases with 1,203 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 377,073, according to the daily virus update released on Saturday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 23 deceased, eight of the casualties were women and 15 were men. Nineteen were from Dhaka division, and four from Chittagong.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,237 men (77.04%) and 1,263 women (22.96%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far, stands at 1.46%.
The DGHS said 10,673 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 10,859 samples were tested in the 109 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 11.08%, in the last 24 hours.
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Till date, 2,061,528 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 18.29% so far.
The health authorities said 1,453 people recovered from the disease over the preceding 24 hours.
So far, 291,365 patients — 77.27% 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 1,073,429 lives and infected 37,163,901 people across the world till Saturday 5pm, according to Worldometer.
As many as 27,924,616 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 214 countries and territories across the planet.
