Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh reported 9 more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till Saturday morning.
With the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,038,216, according to the Directorate Gen-eral of Health Services (DGHS).
However, the official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,446 as no new fatalities were reported.
The daily case test positivity increased to 1.76 percent from Friday’s 0.75 percent as 511 samples were tested.
The recovery rate and the death rate remained unchanged at 98.40 percent and 1.44 percent.
Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28, 2021 and highest number of fatali-ties of 264 on August 10 the same year.