Bangladesh has registered three fatalities from COVID-19 in a day, taking the death toll to 27,890.
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,570,681 after 196 people tested positive until 8 am Friday, according to the latest government data.
Nationwide, another 178 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,534,478.
As many as 17,446 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.12 per cent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.70 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.78 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.
Globally, over 248.72 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.03 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.