Bangladesh on Tuesday (Jul 13) reported 12,198 confirmed Covid-19 positive cases in past 24 hours, the second highest in a single day since the pandemic began.
The pandemic claimed 203 lives in a span of 24 hours, pushing the nationwide coronavirus death toll to 16,842 so far, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in its daily statement.
The official tally showed the virus infected 10,47,155 so far while the daily infection continued to exceed 10,000 mark for several days since Jul 6.
It said 29.21 percent of the 41,755 samples collected in 24 hours were tested positive.
The recovery count rose to 8,89,167 after another 7,646 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS statistics showed of the people infected from the beginning, 84.91 percent recovered, while 1.61 percent died.
