Bangladesh registered 114 more deaths from Covid-19 till 8am Wednesday, taking the total number of deaths to 25,627.
The country recorded 4,966 new infections in the meantime taking the total number of people infected to 1,477,930, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday.
The number of infected people decreased on Wednesday than the previous day. The death rate now stands at 1.73 percent in the country, added the release.
The current positivity rate stands at 14.76 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 16.88 percent.
Among the 114 deceased, 62 were men, and 52 were women. Of the victims, 107 died in different hospitals across the country and seven died at home. 34 of the deceased were from Dhaka division, 29 from Chattogram, 13 each from Khulna and Rajshahi, nine from Sylhet, six each from Mymensingh and Rangpur, and four were from Barisal division.
A total of 33,640 samples were tested across the country till 8am Wednesday.
During this period 7,808 Covid-19 patients have recovered. Up until now, a total of 1,389,571 people have recovered from the virus and the recovery rate stands at 94.02 percent.
As of Wednesday, 4,469,005 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 214,174,539 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
