Bangladesh on Tuesday saw another spike in Covid-19 cases as the health authorities of the country confirmed the detection of 1,380 new cases in 24 hours, taking the caseload to 3,91,586.
During the period, 18 more patients died from Covid-19, pushing up the death toll to 5,699.
Besides, 1,542 patients recovered from the disease, and the total recoveries from coronavirus infection have jumped up to 307,141.
The fatality rate in Bangladesh is still 1.46 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.
The daily infection rate on Tuesday was recorded 10.14 percent upon testing 13,611 samples in 24 hours. 17.86 percent of the tested 21,92,325 samples have so far turned out to be Covid-19 positive.
The recovery rate has climbed to 78.44 percent in Bangladesh, health authorities said.
Bangladesh is seeing 2,299.3 infections, 1803.46 recoveries and 33.46 deaths per million.
Currently, there are 78,746 active cases in the country.
Source: UNB News
