Bangladesh has registered 34 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,541.
No new fatalities were reported in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,131, according to the latest government data released on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com.
As many as 5,380 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 0.63 per cent.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases, with 27 infections.
Another 357 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,903,117.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.42 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.49 per cent.
Globally, around 530.2 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and nearly 6.3 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.
