Bangladesh has registered 26 new cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,952,855.
The government recorded no fatalities from the disease in the 24-hour count and the death toll remains unchanged at 29,127, according to the latest data released on Tuesday.
As many as 7,490 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 0.54 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.
Dhaka registered 12 cases, the most among the eight divisions.
Another 265 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,898,063.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.19 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.49 per cent.
Globally, over 518.05 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 6.25 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.
