Bangladesh on Thursday registered 2,977 new cases of coronavirus and 39 deaths in the last 24 hours when 2,074 patients were discharged from hospitals.
With that, the number of total cases surged to 249,651, deaths 3,306 and recoveries 143,824 in Bangladesh since March 8 when the first cases were identified.
The recovery rate is 57.61 percent while the death rate is 1.32 percent.
Director of National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) Dr Baizid Khurshid gave those updates at the daily virtual bulletin.
Among the latest victims, 32 were male and seven female. Thirty of them have died in different hospitals and nine at their respective residences. Nine were in their 50s, 13 in their 60s, seven in their 70s and the rest are different ages.
According to the division-wise data, 17 deaths took place in Dhaka division, seven in Chattogram division and rest are in other divisions.
Among the total 3,306 deaths, Baizid said, 1,584 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 791 in Chattogram division, 202 in Rajshahi division, 242 in Khulna division, 140 in Barishal division, 156 in Sylhet division, 130 in Rangpur division and 71 in Mymensingh division.
In the last 24 hours, 12,708 samples were tested in 83 labs across the country. So far, Bangladesh tested 12,25,124 samples to detect Covid-19.
