Bangladesh on Friday (Jul 9) crossed 10 lakh mark in Covid-19 cases while it set a daily record of 212 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began.
The country has so far reported 10,00543 fresh coronavirus cases as 11,324 Covid-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its daily statement.
It said 30.95 percent of the 36,586 samples collected in 24 hours were tested positive.
The official tally showed the virus killed 16,004 people so far.
The recovery count rose to 8,62,384 after another 6,038 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning 86.19 percent recovered, while 1.60 percent died.
In the past 24 hours, combined figure of infection in Dhaka city and upazilas of Dhaka district is 2,763 while as of Friday, 5,47,630 out of 10,00543 were detected in Dhaka district including the city.
The DGHS said among the total 16,004 fatalities, 7,989 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 2,941 in Chattogram, 1,208 in Rajshahi, 1,737 in Khulna, 469 in Barishal, 569 in Sylhet, 719 in Rangpur and 372 in Mymensingh division.
