Bangladesh has registered 1,134 new Covid-19 cases in a daily count, taking the tally so far to 496,975.
The death toll climbed to 7,192 after 36 fatalities were recorded in a 24-hour time frame until Thursday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a statement.
Another 2,239 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care; it brought the total recovery to 431,590.
Of the 36 deceased — 27 men and nine women — 20 were from Dhaka Division, eight from Chittagong, three from Rangpur, two from Rajshahi and one each from Khulna, Sylhet and Mymensingh.
All of them died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 5,489 men (76.32%) and 1,703 women (23.68%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.45%.
The DGHS said 12,776 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 13,191 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 140 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 1,134 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 8.60%.
To date, 3,035,728 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 16.37% so far.
So far, 431,590 patients — 86.84% 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 1,657,680 lives and infected 74,645,473 people across the world till Thursday evening, according to Worldometer.
As many as 52,466,399 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
