Bangladesh registered 246 more deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am Monday, taking the total number of death to 21,162.
The country has recorded 15,989 new infections in a day taking the total number of people infected to 1,280,317, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Monday.
The country has been witnessing more than 200 deaths every day for the last nine days. On July 7, the death toll crossed 200 for the first time. A total of 201 people died on that day.
The death rate now stands at 1.65 percent in the country, added the release.
The current positivity rate stands at 29.91 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 16.32 percent.
Among the 246 deceased, 137 were men and 109 were women. Of the victims, 230 died in different hospitals across the country, 15 died at home and one died on the way to hospital. 76 of the deceased were from the Dhaka division, 64 from Chattogram, 30 from Khulna, 22 from Rajshahi, 16 from Barisal, 14 each from Sylhet and Rangpur and 10 were from Mymensingh division.
A total of 53,462 samples were tested across the country till 8am Monday.
However, 15,482 Covid-19 patients have recovered in a day. A total of 1,108,748 people have recovered so far from the virus and the recovery rate stands at 86.60 percent.
As of Monday, 4,243,682 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 199,161,307 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
Meanwhile, the country has been witnessing record number of Dengue cases amid the coronavirus pandemic. 287 people have been admitted to different hospitals across the country after being infected with dengue in the last 24 hours till Monday.
