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Bangladesh logs 239 new COVID cases, another three die

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Bangladesh has registered three deaths from COVID-19 in a daily count, taking the toll to 27,973.

The COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,575,424 after 239 people tested positive for the disease until 8 am on Friday, according to the latest government data.

Dhaka recorded the most cases among the eight divisions, logging 168 infections, while Khulna led the country with two fatalities in the last 24 hours, reports bdnews24.com.

Nationwide, another 277 people recovered from the illness, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1,539,830.

As many as 16,916 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 1.41 per cent.

The latest figures put the recovery rate at 97.74 per cent and the mortality rate at 1.78 per cent.

Globally, over 260.16 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 5.18 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

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