Published : 05 Nov 2022, 04:49 PM
Updated : 05 Nov 2022, 04:49 PM
Bangladesh has logged 37 new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall tally to 2,035,782, as the death toll remained unchanged 29,425.
As many as 1,892 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.96 percent, according to the latest government data released on Saturday.
Dhaka recorded the highest number of cases among the eight divisions, with 30 infections.
Another 198 people recovered from the illness nationwide, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,982,312.
The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.37 percent and the mortality rate at 1.45 percent.
Globally, over 632.23 million people have been infected by the coronavirus and 6.59 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.
