But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count,
keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,131, according to the
latest government data released on Saturday.
As many as 6,225 samples were tested across the country, for a
positivity rate of 1.14 percent.
Among the eight divisions, Dhaka recorded the highest number
of cases, with 68 infections.
Another 110 people recovered from the illness nationwide,
bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,905,175.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.50 percent and
the mortality rate at 1.49 percent.
Globally, over 534.79 million people have been infected by the
novel coronavirus and 6.30 million have died, according to a tally by Johns
Hopkins University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and
territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.