Bangladesh has recorded 83 more Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning, pushing up the total number of fatalities to 10,952.
Coronavirus death toll in Bangladesh crossed 10,000 on April 15.
With the latest figures, the mortality rate rose to 1.48 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a handout.
The daily infection rate saw a sharp decline as 2,697 new cases were detected during the period after examining 20,571 samples, infection rate fell to 13.11 percent from Friday’s 14 percent.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.
