The death toll from Covid-19 reached 5,500 in the country with 23 more fatalities in the last 24hoursending at 8:00am on Saturday.
A total of 377,073 people were infected with the deadly coronavirus in the last eight months, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
DGHS in a statement said 1,203 people were infected with the virus afresh during the 24-hour period till Saturday morning.
The DGHS recorded the overall infection rate at 18.29 per cent while the fatality rate at 1.46 per cent and the recovery rate at 77.27 per cent.
Some 291,365 people also recovered so far from the deadly disease including 1,453 during the reporting period.
The statement said among new coronavirus victims, 15 were male and eight were female. All of them breathed their last in the hospitals.
Of them, two were aged between 41-50, five between 51-60 and remaining 16 were aged over 60 years.
The majority or 19 died in Dhaka division and the rest four in Chattogram division.
The DGHS said 10,859 samples were tested during the reporting period which took the total tally to 2,061,528.
Newly 553 people were kept in quarantine and 102 were put under isolation during the 24-hour period to help contain the spread of the deadly virus.
With these figures in the tally, 41,053 people are now staying in quarantine and 13,242 in isolation.
Referring to the World Health Organisation (WHO) data, DGHS said 124,761 people died and 7,741,559 were infected with the virus in Southeast Asia as of Friday.
Bangladesh is the fourth hardest-hit country in terms of total cases in Asia after India, Iran and Iraq, according to the data available with the information portal Worldometers.
Currently, Bangladesh is the 16thcountry in the globe in terms of total Covid-19 cases.
So far the pandemic claimed 1.073 million lives across the globe and infected 37.16 million people.
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