Dhaka: Covid-19 claimed 9 more lives in Bangladesh and infected 396 others in 24 hours till Friday morning.
With the fresh numbers, the Covid-19 fatalities reached 27,746 in the country while the caseload rose to 15,64,881, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases were detected after testing 18,980 samples.
With this, the daily-case positivity rate declined slightly to 2.09% percent. However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.77%.
Besides, the recovery rate remained static 97.56 %, with 523 more patients getting cured during the period.
So far, 15,26,891 people have recovered from the deadly virus infections, the DGHS added.
