Bangladesh has registered 25 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the death toll so far to 7,217.
The caseload climbed to 498,293 after 1,318 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8 am Friday, reports bdnews24.com citing a statement released by the government.
The number of fresh recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 2,024 patients recovered from the illness through taking treatment at home and in hospital, bringing the total to 433,614.
As many as 14,336 samples were tested at 159 authorised labs in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 9.19 per cent.
The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 87.02 per cent while the mortality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.
Globally, over 74.98 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.66 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.
