Bangladesh has registered four new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 27,922.
The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,572,501 as 223 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8:00 am on Sunday, according to the latest government data, reports bdnews24.com.
Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 187 infections. It also recorded three fatalities.
Nationwide, another 212 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,536,515.
As many as 19,517 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.14 per cent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.71 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.78 per cent.
Globally, over 253.06 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.09 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.
