During that time 24 more COVID-19 patients died, raising the total deaths in the country to 7,452, 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 8.29 per cent, while the overall rate of detection of infected cases in Bangladesh as of Saturday stands at 16.05 per cent.
The overall rate of people recovered as of today stands at 88.77 per cent while the rate of death is 1.46 per cent, it added.
Of the people died in the last 24 hours, 16 were male and eight female. Of the total deaths so far, 5,675 were male (76.15 per cent) and 1,777 female (23.85 per cent).
A total of 13,005 samples were collected in the last 24 hours. As of Saturday, the number of samples tested in Bangladesh stands at 31,71,910.
Bangladesh detected first coronavirus patient on 8 March and recorded first death on 18 March.
