One ninety nine more people died from deadly virus corona while 11651 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Thursday (July 8) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 15792 and 989219 respectively.
The release said that during the time 36850 samples were tested at 603 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 6866682 samples. 5844 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 856346 so far.
It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.