Bangladesh registered three deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am Wednesday. This takes the total number of deaths to 27,961. The current positivity rate stands at 1.49pc.
Although the daily deaths have seen minor fluctuations, the overall number of cases remains significantly low.
According to experts, the Covid-19 situation in a country can be claimed to be under control if the infection rate remains under 5pc for two weeks. Bangladesh has successfully achieved that feat over two month ago.
The country recorded 312 new infections in the meantime taking the total number of people infected to 1,574,948, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday.
The death rate now stands at 1.78 pc in the country, as per the press release. Around 21,002 samples were tested during this time.
Each of the three deaths was reported from Khulna, Chattogram, and Rajshahi divisions.
Around 338 people recovered from the virus during the time. Up until now, a total of 1,539,193 people have recovered from the virus and the recovery rate stands at 97.73 pc.
As of Wednesday, 5,187,430 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 259,246,641 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.