The number of confirmed infections from coronavirus, officially known as Sars-CoV-2 which causes Covid-19, has climbed to 412,647 with the registration of 1,659 more cases over the previous 24 hours till Tuesday.
Besides, 17 more people succumbed to the highly contagious virus during the period to push the national death tally to 5,983.
Of the new deceased, 16 are men and one is women. Among the total dead, 4,604 or 76.95 percent are men while 1,379 or 23.05 percent are women.
Currently, there are 76,877 active cases in the country.
Bangladesh reported its first three coronavirus cases on March 8 last while the first death on March 18.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed the information through a press release in the afternoon.
As per the press release, 1,886 more patients recuperated in the last 24 hours to take the total recoveries in the country to 329,787.
During the period, 14,061 samples were tested in 113 labs across the country. With this, a total of 2,375,763 samples have so far been tested in the country.
The positivity rate — an indicator of the prevalence of the disease — was recorded at 11.80 percent in the last 24 hours while the overall positivity rate is 17.37 percent.
The recovery rate continued to rise in Bangladesh reaching 79.92 percent.
Bangladesh has one of the lowest case fatality rates or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, at 1.45 percent.
On Monday, Bangladesh registered 25 deaths and 1,736 infections from coronavirus after testing 12,891 samples with a positivity rate of 13.47 percent.
Meanwhile, coronavirus continued its second wave in many countries as the world recorded 496,864 cases in the last 24 hours till 10am on Tuesday.
In total, confirmed infections from the virus across the world have reached 47,320,376.
Besides, the death toll from the virus has reached 1,211,300 globally, according to data collated by tracking website Worldometer.
Of the currently infected 12,073,379 patients, 11,986,820 are in mild condition while 86,559 are in serious or critical condition.
So far, 34,035,697 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 9,567,543 and 236,997 respectively while India has 2nd highest cases of 8,267,623 and third highest fatalities of 123,139 and Brazil has 2nd highest deaths of 160,272 and third highest cases of 5,554,206.