Dhaka: The country witnessed a sharp rise in daily infections as 5,222 more people tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am Sunday.
The health officials marked a 17.82% infection rate after testing 29,305 samples across the country, up from 14.35% in the previous day, a DGHS release confirmed on this afternoon.
A total of eight deaths were reported from the virus during the same period.
The latest figures took the country's death toll to 28,144 and the case tally to 16,17,711.
On Saturday, the country registered seven deaths and 3,447 cases.
