Bangladesh reported another 56 more Coronavirus-related deaths and 1,386 new cases in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in a hand note, said the new fatalities took the country’s death toll to 11,934 as the mortality rate remained static at 1.54 percent.
Besides, the fresh cases were detected after testing 16,915 samples in the time frame, pushing up the total caseload to 773,513. The daily infection rate fell to 8.19%.
The number of Covid related deaths came down to as low as 50 after over a month on Wednesday.
Bangladesh saw 50 deaths on April 1 and it kept rising since then.
The daily death toll soared to over 100 during April 16-19 and on April 25 but has been declinning gradually since then.
According to the DGHS, 3,329 patients recovered in the past 24 hours, putting the recovery rate at 91.81%.
Bangladesh has so far carried out 5,630,894 tests.
The country reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
