Bangladesh recorded four more Covid-19-linked deaths with 618 new cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning, reports UNB.
With the latest figures, the country's total fatalities reached 29,284 while the caseload 2,004,188, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case positivity rate rose to 6.62 from Wednesday's 6.83 per cent as 9,338 samples were tested.
The deceased included two men and two women. Three of them were from Chattogram and another from Dhaka division.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate rose to 96.80 per cent from Thursday's 96.79 per cent.
In June, the country reported 18 Covid-linked deaths and 20,201 new cases, according to the DGHS.
Bangladesh reported its first zero Covid death on November 20 last year
since the pandemic broke out here in March 2020.
The country registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.
Globally the overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 578 million amid a rise in new infections in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 578,351,573 and the death toll reached 6,410,548 on Thursday morning.
The US has recorded 92,761,865 cases so far and 1,053,969 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.
India's daily Covid-19 caseload rose to 18,313, after two straight days of showing a declining trend in the new cases, officials said on Wednesday.
According to federal health ministry data released on Wednesday morning, 18,313 new cases of Covid were reported in 24 hours, taking the total tally to 43,938,764 in the country.
With the fresh cases, India's active caseload currently stands at 145,026.
The country also logged 57 related deaths during the period, pushing the overall death toll to 526,167, the ministry said.
The daily positivity rate stands at 4.31 percent and the weekly positivity rate was 4.57 percent, the ministry data showed.
So far, 43,267,571 people have been successfully cured and discharged from hospitals, of whom 20,742 were discharged during the past 24 hours.
