Bangladesh has recorded 1,282 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, the lowest since August 02 2, taking the tally of infections to 336,044, bdnews24.com reports.
Another 34 people died from the disease in the 24 hours to 8:00am Saturday, raising the death toll to 4,702, the government said.
The number of daily recoveries outpaced new infections in the same period as another 2,247 patients overcame the disease through treatment at home and in hospital care. It brings the total to 238,271.
A total of 10,723 samples were tested at 94 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 11.96 per cent, according to data released by the health directorate.
The official figures put the recovery rate at 70.90 per cent while the latest deaths of 23 men and 11 women pushed the mortality rate to 1.40.
Globally, over 28.50 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 915,920 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.
