Bangladesh has registered 38 new fatalities from COVID-19, the lowest daily count in three months, taking the death toll to 26,832.
The caseload climbed to 1,527,215 after 2,325 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8:00 am Friday, according to the latest government data, reports bdnews24.com.
Dhaka accounted for the most daily deaths and new cases among the eight divisions, logging 17 fatalities and 1,430 infections. Chattogram tallied 10 deaths and 334 cases.
Nationwide, another 3,856 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,472,067.
As many as 26,878 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 8.65 per cent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 96.39 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.76 per cent.
Globally, over 223.23 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 4.60 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
