Covid-19 patients have crossed 0.3-million mark in Bangladesh as fresh 2,519 positive cases have been reported in the past 24 hours as of Wednesday morning.
Besides, a total of 54 people died from the disease during the period in question.
With this, a total of 4,082 people have so far died from the viral disease in the country since March, according to the Directorate General for Health Services (DGHS).
The DGHS in its regular Covid-19 update revealed that 15,070 tests were done in the reporting period that took the total tally to 1,485,261.
Currently, 92 laboratories are involved in conducting sample collection and diagnosis to detect cases countrywide.
With the new 3,427 recovery cases, 190,183 people got rid of the disease.
The new case detection rate in the 24 hours has been recorded at 16.72 per cent and the overall rate at 20.34 per cent.
The recovery rate and the fatality rate against detection have been logged at 62.94 per cent and 1.35 per cent respectively.
The new fatality cases include 39 males and 15 females. Of them, 49 died in hospital and others at home. Most of them hailed from Dhaka.
Twenty-three people died in Dhaka, nine in Chattogram, four in Rajshahi, nine in Khulna, two in Barishal, two in Sylhet, three in Rangpur and two in Mymensingh divisions.
Three were aged between 31 and 40, eight between 41 and 50, 14 between 51 and 60, and 29 over 60 years.
At present, 52,705 Covid-19 suspected people have been kept in quarantine and 20,287 in isolation.
The state-run hotlines have so far received 19,473,349 phone calls, the DGHS statement said.
With the rising number of new cases, Bangladesh is currently the fourth worse-affected nation in Asia and 15th on the planet.
To date, four Asian nations India, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh logged more than 0.3 million cases each.
Bangladesh is following Saudi Arabia that reported 309,768 cases and 3,722 fatalities.
The South Asian nation is followed by Pakistan with 294,193 cases and 6,267 deaths.
Emerging from China in late 2019, the novel coronavirus has so far killed more than 0.82 million people and infected over 2.4 million globally.
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