Bangladesh logged another 446 Covid-19 cases and seven more deaths in 24 hours till 8am on Tuesday morning.
The latest development took the caseload to 1,948,148 and total fatalities to 29,096.
As many as 19,964 samples were tested yielding a daily positivity rate of 2.23%, according to the Directorate General of Health Services bulletin.
As many as 3,062 people recovered from the disease taking the total recoveries to 1,849,946.
The latest figures put the mortality rate at 1.49% while the recovery rate at 94.96%.
Of the deaths, six were reported in Dhaka and one in Sylhet.
The seven-day moving average of single-day deaths in Bangladesh was 7.2 on Tuesday.
On Monday, health authorities reported four deaths from coronavirus with 436 new infections.
Meanwhile, the government lifted the Covid-19 restrictions, imposed in January amid Omicron fears, from February 22. However, people will have to continue wearing masks outdoor as per the latest decision.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus later named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020. The first death was reported 10 days later.
A large number of the population has also been vaccinated, with the country crossing the landmark of administering 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines on December 1, nearly 10 months after launching a nationwide campaign.
The fast-spreading coronavirus has so far claimed over six million lives and infected over 448 million people throughout the world, according to Worldometer.
More than 382 million people have recovered from the disease, which has affected 223 countries and territories across the planet.
