Bangladesh has registered 41 deaths from the Covid-19 in a day, taking the total toll from the disease to 28,744.
The country also recorded 7,264 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 1,894,535, according to the latest government data released on Thursday.
As many as 42,867 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 16.95 per cent.
Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases and deaths among the eight divisions with 4,966 infections and 22 fatalities. Chattogram recorded 786 cases and six deaths.
Another 11,046 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,644,628.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 86.81 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.52 per cent.
Globally, over 403.32 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.77 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.
