Health authorities also reported 1,725 more recoveries over the preceding 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 7,80,146, according to data released by the government.

 

Of the newly deceased persons, 34 were male and 33 female. Of them, 14 died in the Dhaka division, 11 in Chittagong, eight each in Rajshahi and Rangpur, 24 in Khulna, one each in Sylhet and Mymensingh.

 

In the last 24 hours, 528 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 16,964 samples. The infection rate is 18.02 percent in the last 24 hours, compared to the samples tested, while the overall infection rate is 13.45 percent.

So far, the recovery rate is 92 percent and the mortality rate is 1.59 percent. China reported its first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, on January 11 last year.