Bangladesh registered 50 coronavirus deaths and 2,928 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00am on Monday, the 135th day of the outbreak in the country
The new deaths and cases bring the total respectively to 2,668 and 207,453, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) while briefing the media live about the latest coronavirus situation in the country at 2:30pm.
It also confirmed 1,914 recoveries from the contagion during the 24 hours, taking the total recovery tally to 113,558.
The virtual briefing was also told that 13,362 tests were conducted during the same period of time, taking the total test count to 1,041,661.
Bangladesh first confirmed its coronavirus cases and death on March 08 and March 18 respectively, and since March 26 it enforced a 66-day shutdown in parallel with general holidays.
But that shutdown did little to slow the coronavirus spread as numbers of cases continued to increase.
Bangladesh has since June 05 become one of the 20 largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, overtaking the then European hotspot of Belgium as the 20th worst affected country.
Currently, in South Asia, only Pakistan and India have more cases, while globally, 15 countries, including those two, have more cases than Bangladesh.
Globally, 14,657,508 people have caught coronavirus, 609,125 died and 8,743,305 recovered as of 2:48pm, with the US becoming the worst-hit country with 3,898,550 cases and 143,289 deaths, according to the worldometer.info.
