One hundred eighty seven more people died from deadly virus corona while 12148 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Friday (July 16) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 17465 and 1083922 respectively.
The release said that during the time 41947 samples were tested at 605 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 7176367 samples. 8536 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 914343 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.