Health authorities in Bangladesh have registered 3 more deaths and 239 more fresh infections from Covid-19 across the country in last 24 hours to Friday morning.
With the latest additions, the death toll reached 27,973 and the case tally increased to 1575,424 in the country, said the daily DGHS statement.
The current positivity rate was reported at 1.41 percent after 16,916 samples were tested across the country.
Among the deaths reported today, two were from Khulna and one from Dhaka division.
Also, 277 patients were declared free of Covid-19 during the last 24 hours, with a 97.74 percent recovery rate.
The Covid-19 victims’ gender breakdown shows that 17,900 of the total deceased across the country were men and 10,073 were women.
The country’s maiden cases were reported on 8 March last year and the first death from the virus was reported on 18 March.
The DGHS said among the total 27,973 fatalities, 12,207 occurred in Dhaka division, 5,680 in Chattogram, 2,050 in Rajshahi, 3,609 in Khulna, 946 in Barishal, 1,270 in Sylhet, 1,367 in Rangpur and 844 in Mymensingh divisions.
