Dhaka: Covid-19 claimed 7 more lives in Bangladesh and infected 247 others in 24 hours till Thursday morning.
With the fresh numbers, the Covid-19 fatalities reached 27,887 in the country while the caseload rose to 1,570,485, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases were detected after testing 18,690 samples.
With this, the daily-case positivity rate stands at 1.32 percent. However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78%.
Besides, the recovery rate reached at 97.70%, with 227 more patients getting cured during the period.
So far, 1,534,300 people have recovered from the deadly virus infections, the DGHS added.
