Two hundred twenty six more people died from deadly virus corona while 12236 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Thursday (July 15) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 17278 and 1071774 respectively.
The release said that during the time 44941 samples were tested at 613 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 7134420 samples. 8395 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 905807 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.