Bangladesh on Monday saw the total number of Covid-19 cases to go beyond 3.5 lakh as health authorities detected 1,705 new cases in 24 hours, putting the total count at 3,50,621.
The caseload in Bangladesh crossed 3,50,000 in 197 days after having detected the first three cases on March 8 last.
Meanwhile, 40 more deaths were reported across the country alongside 2,152 recoveries from Covid-19 in 24 hours till Monday morning. So far, 4,979 people have died due to the deadly disease, according to an official release sent by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Besides, the daily infection rate in Bangladesh moved to 13.02 percent during the period as the new patients were detected after the test of 13,053 samples in 99 RT-PCR labs. The mortality rate in Bangladesh is 1.42 percent.
Among the 18,34,323 tested population, 19.11 percent have turned out Covid-19 positive.
The recovery rate from Covid-19 reached 73.79 percent and the number of total recoveries rose to 2,58,717 till Monday morning. Currently, there are 87,925 active cases in the country. Bangladesh is seeing 2058.77 infections, 1,519.13 recoveries per million while 29.24 are dying against the same number.
Since March 18, the release said, 3,873 men and 1,106 women have died of the disease in Bangladesh.
Twenty out of 40 new victims are aged above 60 years and 10 others are aged between 51 and 60.
So far, 2,449 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,035 in Chattoram, 331 in Rajshahi, 417 in Khulna, 185 in Barishal, 221 in Sylhet, 234 in Rangpur and 107 have died in Mymensingh divisions. Across the country, 16,402 people are now in isolation and 46,904 in quarantine.
In Bangladesh, the first three cases of coronavirus infection were detected on March 8 and it crossed 3,00,000 on August 26. On July 2, a total of 4,019 Covid-19 patients were identified in the country which was the highest in a single day.
