The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh has remained below 3% for the last five days.
A total of 387 new infections were reported from 14,468 samples tested in the 24 hours till Tuesday morning, resulting in a daily test positivity rate of 2.67%.
The latest infection rate is the lowest in 10 months since 4.90% on April 5. It was 2.07% on April 4.
The daily test positivity rate in the country has been in single digits since December 19.
With the latest infections, the number of all confirmed cases jumped to 538,765, according to the daily virus update by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), released on Tuesday afternoon.
A total of 14,578 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 206 authorized labs across the country.
The overall infection rate in the country stands at 14.26% from 3,777,242 tests that have been conducted so far.
The country registered eight more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,229.
Of the deceased - seven men and one woman -- five were from Dhaka division, and one each from Chittagong, Sylhet, and Mymensingh divisions.
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All the victims died at hospitals.
So far, 6,236 men (75.78%) and 1,993 women (24.22%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected in the country stands at 1.53%.
The DGHS said 642 people have recovered from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours.
So far, 484,573 patients — 89.94% of all infected — have made full recoveries 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 named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
The fast spreading coronavirus had claimed 2,337,992 lives and infected 107,059,323 people across the world till Tuesday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics for diverse topics.
As many as 78,941,251 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 219 countries and territories across the planet.
