Bangladesh sees record 3,471 cases, 46 COVID-19 deaths in a day

at 7:15 pm
(Image source: United News of Bangladesh)

New Delhi (NVI): Bangladesh today saw another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. A whopping 3,471 new cases were reported, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 81,523.

The country also recorded a total of 46 deaths due to the novel coronavirus during this period, raising the death tally to 1,095, according to United News of Bangladesh.

Notably, the country crossed the 1,000 mark in death toll within 91 days after recording the first death on March 11.

So far, a total of 17,249 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 502 more patients made recovery.

Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 21.16 per cent and the mortality rate is 1.34 per cent in the country.