Bangladesh has recorded 17 deaths and 1,842 new cases of the novel coronavirus in las 24 hours.
The death toll reaches 6,021 while the tally of infections so far 416,006, the government said in a statement.
The number of recoveries outpaced active cases in the same period as another 1,891 patients recovered from the disease at home and in hospital care. It brings the total to 333,588.
As many as 15,225 samples were tested at 114 authorised labs in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 12.10 percent, according to data released by the health directorate.
The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 80.19 percent while the mortality rate stands at 1.45 percent.
Globally, over 48.13 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.22 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, reports bdnews24.com.