During that time 20 more COVID-19 patients died, raising the total deaths in the country to 8,023, said a press release of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

The rate of detection in the last 24 hours until 8:00am was 3.34 per cent.

The health directorate today said a total of 514 people recovered from the highly infectious disease in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total recovery to 476,413.

Bangladesh detected its first coronavirus patient on 8 March and recorded the first death on 18 March.