Confirmed cases from coronavirus, officially known as Sars-CoV-2 which causes Covid-19, have jumped to 479,743 in Bangladesh after the health authorities announced the detection of 2,198 more cases in the previous 24 hours till Monday.
Besides, the highly contagious pathogen killed 36 more people during the period, pushing the national death toll to 6,874.
Of the new deceased, 24 are men and 12 are women. Among the total dead, 5,255 or 76.45 percent are men while 1,619 or 23.55 percent are women.
Currently, there are 74,246 active cases in the country.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed the information through a press release in the afternoon.
As per the press release, 2,663 more patients recuperated in the last 24 hours to take the total recoveries in the country to 398,623.
During the period, 14,369 samples were tested in 137 labs across the country. With this, a total of 2,877,538 samples have so far been tested in the country.
The positivity rate — an indicator of the prevalence of the disease — was recorded at 15.30 percent in the last 24 hours while the overall positivity rate is 16.67 percent.
The recovery rate in Bangladesh stands at 83.09 percent.
Bangladesh has one of the lowest case fatality rates or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, at 1.43 percent.
On Sunday, the country reported 31 deaths and 1,666 infections from coronavirus after testing 13,218 samples with a positivity rate of 12.60?percent.
Meanwhile, the world, which is reeling under the coronavirus, has recorded 536,507 infections from the virus over the past 24 hours till 10am on Monday. In total, confirmed cases have reached 67,392,289.
Besides, 7,192 people lost their lives to the virus during the period, bringing the global death toll to 1,541,745, according to data collated by tracking website Worldometer.
Of the currently infected 19,268,609 patients, 18,541,022 are in mild condition while 106,229 are in serious or critical condition.
So far, 46,581,935 people have made recovery from the disease in different countries.
The US is the worst-hit country with highest cases and deaths in the world at 15,159,529 and 288,906 respectively while India has 2nd highest cases of 9,676,801 and third highest fatalities of 140,590 and Brazil has 2nd highest deaths of 176,962 and third highest cases of 6,603,540.