Dhaka: Bangladesh has registered 28 more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the number of total fatalities to 6,416.
The country also logged more than 449,000 coronavirus cases with 2,419 people having tested positive over the same period.
With the latest figure, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 449,760, according to the daily virus update released on Monday by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Of the 28 deceased — 21 men and seven women — 21 were from Dhaka division, four from Chittagong, two from Rajshahi, and one from Sylhet divisions.
All the victims died at different hospitals in the country.
So far, 4,930 men (76.84%) and 1,486 women (23.16%) have died from Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected so far stands at 1.43%.
The DGHS said 16,240 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours.
As many as 16,059 samples were tested in the 117 authorized labs — government and private — across the country and 2,419 new patients were confirmed.
The latest figures show an infection rate of 15.06%.
To date, 2,665,131 tests have been conducted in the country, leading to an overall infection rate of 16.88% so far.
