Bangladesh has logged 26 new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 2,036,393.
According to the latest government data released on Monday, the death toll from the disease rose by one to 29,431 over the 24 hours, reports bdnews24.com.
As many as 3,943 samples were tested across the country for a positivity rate of 0.66 per cent.
Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases among the eight divisions, with 22 infections.
Another 155 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,984,952.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.47 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.45 per cent.
Globally, over 638.12 million people have been infected by the coronavirus, and 6.62 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
