The death toll from the Covid-19 crossed 3,500-mark in Bangladesh on Wednesday in a grim milestone.
The health directorate in a statement said they have registered 42 more deaths from the pandemic virus and 2,295 new cases of infection testing 14,751 samples in the last 24 hours.
With that, the death rose to 3,513 and the number of total infections stood at 266,498.
Some 1,117 patients were declared Covid-19 free during the period, taking the total number of recoveries to 153,089.
Of the latest victims, 33 were men and nine were women.
Thirty-nine of them died in different hospitals and three at their respective residences.
Twenty-seven of them hailed from Dhaka, four from Sylhet, three each from Khulna and Chattogram, two each from Rangpur and Mymensingh, and one from Barishal division.
The gender breakdown of Covid-19's victims shows that 79.19 percent or 2,782 of the total were men, and 20.81 percent or 731 were women.
Currently, 52,878 people are quarantined across the country – including 2,023 newly-quarantined individuals.
Some 406,753 people have completed their quarantine course.
The authorities placed 862 new individuals suspected of having Covid-19 into isolation, bringing the total to 19,730 after 39,477 left.
Bangladesh reported the first cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The WHO declared the disease pandemic on March 11.
The recovery rate out of the confirmed patients is 57.44 percent while the death rate is 1.32 percent in Bangladesh.
So far, 1,287,988 samples have been tested in Bangladesh since January when the disease monitoring agency, IEDCR, started finding cases following emergence of the virus in China in December.
