Bangladesh has registered 38 more Coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning, raising the number of total fatalities to 12,549.
Besides, 1,043 more people tested positive as 13,184 samples were tested during the period.
The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.57 per cent while the positivity rate declined to 7.91 per cent from Friday’s 9.30 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.
With the latest addition to the cases, the total caseload now has reached 7,93,386 while the total number of recoveries is 7,37,408, including 1,187 in the last 24 hours.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
