Bangladesh has logged 5,042 new cases of the coronavirus, taking the tally of infections to 605,937.
The death toll climbed to 8,994 after 45 fatalities were registered in the 24 hours to 8:00am Tuesday, according to data released by the government, reports bdnews24.com.
Another 2,162 people recovered from COVID-19 through treatment at home and in hospital care in the same period, bringing the tally of recoveries to 540,180.
As many as 26,620 samples were tested across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 18.94 per cent.
The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 89.15 per cent, while the mortality rate stands at 1.48 per cent.
Globally, over 127.67 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 2.79 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.
