News Desk
Ten more people died of Covid-19 and 443 others got infected by the deadly virus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Monday.
With the fresh ones, the total death toll from the deadly virus in the country reached 8,137 while the mortality rate stood at 1.52 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a handout.
It said the Covid-19 infection rate in the country is now 3.55 percent.
Meanwhile, the new cases pushed up the national tally to 535,582, putting the current overall detection rate at 14.62 percent.
Until this morning, 480,216 patients (89.66 percent of the total reported cases) have recovered.
So far, 3,664,197 samples were tested, including 12,556 during the past 24 hours.
Bangladesh reported its first Coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18 last year.
