Coronavirus caseload in Bangladesh stood at 381,275 on Tuesday with the detection of 1,537 new cases in 24 hours until morning.
Health authorities also announced 22 more deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total fatalities to 5,577.
With 1,537 patients recovering during this period, the total recoveries from coronavirus rose to 295,873.
The fatality rate in Bangladesh is 1.46 percent, said a handout of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily infection rate on Tuesday was recorded 11.13 percent upon testing 13,815 samples in 109 RT-PCR testing labs.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The number of cases reached the 300,000-mark on August 26. The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 5,000 on Sept 22.
So far, 20,98,037 samples have been tested and 18.17 percent of them have turned out to be positive. The recovery rate has climbed to 77.6 percent in Bangladesh, the health authorities said.
Bangladesh is seeing 2,238.76 infections, 1,737.30 recoveries and 32.75 deaths per million.
Of the total victims, 4,292 are men and 1,285 are women. Of the latest 22 victims, 17 are aged above 50 years.
So far, 2,844 people have died in Dhaka division, 1,122 in Chattogram, 359 in Rajshahi, 449 in Khulna, 193 in Barishal, 238 in Sylhet, 254 in Rangpur and 118 in Mymensingh. Across the country, 12,501 people are now in isolation and 40,576 in quarantine.
