bdnews24.com :
Bangladesh has registered 174 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 24,349.
The COVID-19 caseload surged to 1,425,861 after 6,959 people tested positive for the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on Monday, according to the latest government data.
Dhaka registered the most daily deaths and cases among the eight divisions, logging 70 fatalities and 4,170 infections. Chattogram tallied 37 deaths and 1,159 cases, Khulna 19 deaths and 368 cases, and Rajshahi 17 deaths and 361 cases.
Nationwide, another 9,268 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,301,966.
As many as 33,015 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 21.08 percent. The latest figures put the recovery rate at 91.31 percent and the mortality rate at 1.71 percent.
