Bangladesh has registered 849 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally so far to 523,302.
The death toll climbed to 7,803 after 22 fatalities were recorded in a 24-hour time frame until Monday morning, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a press release.
Another 917 patients recovered from Covid-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care, bringing the total recovery count to 467,718.
Of the 22 deceased — 15 men and seven women — 18 were from Dhaka Division, two from Chittagong, and one each from Sylhet and Rajshahi.
Of them, 21 died at different hospitals in the country while one died at home.
So far, 5,927 men (75.96%) and 1,876 women (24.04%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected currently stands at 1.49%.
The DGHS said 14,181 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the 24-hour time frame.
As many as 14,097 samples, including some pending ones, were tested at the 193 authorized labs — government and private — across the country.
The latest figures showed a test positivity rate of 6.02%.
To date, 3,371,416 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall test positivity rate of 15.52%.
Up to this point, 467,718 patients — 89.38% of all infected — have recovered from Covid-19 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, 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed 1,944,394 lives and infected 90,748,518 people across the world till Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 64,892,492 people have recovered from Covid-19 which has affected 220 countries and territories across the planet.
