Covid-19 claimed nine more lives in Bangladesh and infected 396 others in 24 hours till Friday morning.
With the fresh numbers, the Covid-19 fatalities reached 27,746 in Bangladesh while the caseload mounted to 15,64,881, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases were detected after testing 18,980 samples.
With this, the daily-case positivity rate decreased to 2.09% percent, said the DGHS.
Bangladesh recorded below 3% daily-positivity rate in February this year. However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.77%.
The recovery count rose to 15,26,891 after another 523 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the past one day.
The DGHS said among the total 27,746 fatalities, 12,103 deaths occurred in Dhaka division, 5,629 in Chattogram, 2,033 in Rajshahi, 3,579 in Khulna, 943 in Barishal, 1,259 in Sylhet, 1,361 in Rangpur and 839 in Mymensingh division.