Bangladesh's officially confirmed novel coronavirus cases went up to 260,507 with the detection of 2,907 new cases in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.

The death tally rose to 3,438 with 39 new deaths, said Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), at a regular online briefing in the afternoon.

Of the deceased, 79.14 percent are men and 20.86 percent women.

Bangladesh's fatality rate stands at 1.3 percent while the recovery rate is 57.7 percent. The country reported its first Covid-19 cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.

Labs around the country have conducted 1273,168 tests so far, including the latest 12,849, and found 20.46 percent of the samples to be positive.

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