Bangladesh recorded 35 new coronavirus deaths in 24 hours until Wednesday morning, pushing the official death tally to 3,035.
The current mortality rate is 1.31 percent.
“We’ve detected 3,009 new cases after testing 14,127 samples,” Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana told a regular online briefing.
Currently, the total number of officially confirmed cases stands at 2,32,194.
The number of tests has come down but the number of cases continues to rise. In the last 24 hours, 14,127 tests were conducted. So far, the government says 11,51,258 samples have been tested and 20.17 percent of them total tests have turned out positive.
Wednesday’s infection rate was recorded at 21.3 percent.
Prof Nasima said 2,878 people have recovered in the last 24 hours. The total number of recoveries in the country rose to 1,30,292 or 56.11 percent of the total cases.
