The recovery rate of Covid-19 out of the total confirmed patients is 57.53 percent in Bangladesh while the death rate is 1.32 percent, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
In the latest update, the DGHS said on Monday that they had registered 2,595 new cases and 37 deaths in the last 24 hours till 8am.
The number of patients rose to 279,144 and deaths 3,694.
The recovery count rose to 160,591 after another 1,641 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period, it said in a statement.
Some 12,523 samples were tested at 87 authorised laboratories across the country during the time.
Bangladesh first reported the Covid-19 patients on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The WHO declared the disease pandemic on March 11.
Of the latest victims, 28 were male and nine female.
Three of them were in their 30s, eight in their 40s, eight in their 50s and 18 in their 60s.
According to the division-wise data, 20 deaths took place in Dhaka division, six in Khulna division and the rest are in other divisions.
People have been asked to contact hotline and mobile numbers - 16263; 333; 10655 and 01944333222 – for Covid-19 related information and services.
So far, 13,64,189 samples have been tested in Bangladesh since January to detect Covid1-9 patients following the outbreak of the virus in China in December. Of them, 20.46 percent tested positive for the virus.
