Bangladesh registered three more deaths in 24 hours from Covid-19 till 8am Thursday. The total number of deaths has reached to 29,100 with the latest figure.
A total of 327 people were newly infected during the time and the total number of people infected rose to 1,948,789, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday.
The current positivity dropped to 1.97 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 14.33 percent.
Earlier on Wednesday, one person died from the virus and 323 people contracted the virus.
In addition, the death rate now stands at 1.49 percent in the country, added the release.
Of the deceased, two were from Dhaka and one from Khulna.
A total of 17,103 samples were tested across the country till 8am Thursday.
Some 2,879 Covid-19 patients have recovered during this period. A total of 1,855,249 people have recovered from the virus so far and the recovery rate stands at 95.20 percent.
As of Thursday, 6,045,333 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 451,963,796 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
