Bangladesh has registered five new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the toll to 28,022.
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,578,996 after 177 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Saturday, according to the latest government data.
Nationwide, another 122 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,543,862.
Laboratories across the country tested 15,632 samples, for a positivity rate of 1.13 per cent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.77 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.77 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.
Globally, over 269.26 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.29 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.