Bangladesh has registered 121 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the total caseload from the disease to 1,950,846.
But no more deaths were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the total toll from the disease unchanged at 29,117, according to the latest government data released on Tuesday.
As many as 10,949 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.11 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases, with 98 infections.
Another 1,234 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,872,845.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 96 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.49 per cent.
Globally, over 472.22 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 6.09 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.
