Bangladesh recorded 37 coronavirus deaths and 3,240 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00 in the morning on Saturday.
With the latest, the total number of such cases and deaths now stands at 1,425 and 108,725 respectively, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a virtual news conference about the update on the coronavirus situation in the country at 2:30 in the afternoon.
During the briefing, the DGHS also confirmed a recovery of 1,048 people from the contagion during the last 24 hours under review, taking the total recovery tally to 43,993.
A day before, Bangladesh emerged as the 17th largest outbreak in the world surpassing Canada in terms of the virus cases.
Bangladesh was first placed among the 20 largest coronavirus hotspot countries on June 05, overtaking the European hotspot of Belgium as the 20th worst affected country.
In South Asia, only Pakistan and India have more cases, while globally, 16 countries, including those two, have more cases than Bangladesh.
Bangladesh first confirmed its coronavirus cases and deaths in March and since March 26 enforced a 66-day shutdown in parallel with its general holidays in a bid to slow the coronavirus spread.
Bangladesh reported its single-day largest number of deaths and cases -- 53 and 4,008 -- respectively on June 16 and 17.
Globally, 8,777,245 people have caught coronavirus, 462,918 died and 4,640,370 recovered as of 2:46pm, with the US becoming the worst-hit country with 2,297,360 cases and 121,407 deaths, according to the worldometer.info.
