COVID-19 tally in Bangladesh rises to 68,500; 930 dead

at 5:36 pm

New Delhi (NVI): Bangladesh reported spike in coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with the detection of 2,735 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 68,504.

The country also recorded a total of 42 deaths due to the novel coronavirus during this period, raising the death tally to 930, according to United News of Bangladesh.

So far, a total of 14,560 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 657 more patients made recovery.

The detection rate of new patients has been recorded at 21.10 per cent.

Meanwhile, against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 21.25 per cent and the mortality rate is 1.36 per cent in the country.