The number of coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark in Bangladesh on Monday.
The government in the daily bulletin said 688 new cases were found in the last 24 hours till Monday 8am when five more patients died and 147 recovered.
With that, the number of total cases rose to 10,143, deaths 182 and recoveries 1209, additional director general for health Prof Nasima Sultana said.
Some 6,260 samples were tested in the last 24 hours which is 16.61 percent more than the previous day.
But the confirmed cases were 10.99 percent of the samples tested in the last 24 hours which was lower than the previous day.
On Sunday, new 665 cases were 12.30 percent of the 5,368 samples tested in 24 hours.
The rate was much lower on Saturday when 551 cases were detected by testing 5,825 samples which was 9.48 percent.
But throughout the week the new case rise was consistent. On Friday 571 new cases were found which was 10.24 percent of the tested 5573 samples.
On Thursday 564 new cases were found out of 4965 samples which was 11.36 percent.
On Wednesday it was 12.90 percent as 641 cases were found out of 4,968 samples and on Tuesday, it was 12.67 percent of the 4332 samples tested positive which was 549. So far, 87,694 samples have been tested. The government is now testing samples in 33 RT-PCR labs across the country.
Bangladesh first confirmed the coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The World Health Organisation declared the disease pandemic on March 11.
Meanwhile, the additional director general giving an analysis of the total cases as of May 3 said 68 percent of them were male and the rest are female. Among the dead, 73 percent were males.
All the five deceased on Monday were male. Of them three were aged above 60 years and one between 41 and 50 years and another between 31 and 40 years. Age wise, she said, 42 percent of the total deaths were among the patients aged above 60 years while 27 percent was between 51 years and 60 years, 19 percent between 41 years and 50 years, 7 percent between 31 and 40, 3 percent between 21 and 30, and 2 percent in less than 10 years of age group.
Only one person died within the age of 11 to 20 years.
Dhaka city and Narayanaganj remained the top contributor of the infection in Bangladesh.