Bangladesh registered eight more deaths in 24 hours from Covid-19 till 8am Sunday. The total number of deaths has reached to 29,085 with the latest figure.
The country recorded 529 new infections in the meantime taking the total number of people infected to 1,947,266, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday.
The current positivity rate stands 2.63 percent and the overall positivity rate stands at 14.40 percent.
In addition, the death rate now stands at 1.49 percent in the country, added the release.
Among the eight deceased, four were from Dhaka, two from Chattogram two from Khulna division.
A total of 20,132 samples were tested across the country till 8am Sunday.
Some 3,340 Covid-19 patients have recovered during this period. A total of 1,843,388 people have recovered from the virus so far and the recovery rate stands at 94.66 percent.
As of Sunday, 6,017,220 people died of Covid-19 across the world and 445,676,177 have been infected so far, according to Worldometer.
