Reported deaths from coronavirus, officially known as Sars-CoV-2 which is responsible for Covid-19, have reached 6,108 after the pathogen claimed the lives of 16 more people over the last 24 hours till Tuesday.
Of the new deceased, 15 are men and one is woman. Among the total dead, 4,703 or 77 percent are men while 1,405 or 23 percent are women.
Besides, 1,699 fresh coronavirus infections were logged during the period to bring the confirmed cases in the country to 423,620.
Currently, there are 76,096 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, 1,648 more patients recuperated in the last 24 hours to take the total recoveries in the country to 341,416.
During the period, 13,520 samples were tested in 115 labs across the country. With this, a total of 2,470,164 samples have so far been tested in the country.
The positivity rate — an indicator of the prevalence of the disease — was recorded at 12.57 percent in the last 24 hours while the overall positivity rate is 17.15 percent.
The recovery rate continued to rise in Bangladesh reaching 80.59 percent.
Bangladesh has one of the lowest case fatality rates or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, at 1.44 percent.On Monday, the country registered 25 deaths and 1,683 infections from coronavirus after testing 14,042 samples with a positivity rate of 11.99 percent.
Meanwhile, the globe registered 505,547 more infections from coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 10am on Tuesday, to bring the total cases to 51,243,419.
Besides, the deaths associated with the virus have jumped to 1,269,305, including 7,175 reported during the period, globally, according to data collated by tracking website Worldometer.
Of the currently infected 13,921,320 patients, 13,827,593 are in mild condition while 93,727 are in serious or critical condition.
So far, 36,052,794 people have made recovery from the disease in different countries.Â
The US is the worst-hit country with highest cases and deaths in the world at 10,421,956 and 244,448 respectively while India has 2nd highest cases of 8,591,075 and third highest fatalities of 127,104 and Brazil has 2nd highest deaths of 162,638 and third highest cases of 5,675,766.