Two hundred thirty one more people died from deadly virus corona while 14844 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Sunday (August 1) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 20916 and 1264328 respectively.
The release said that during the time 49529 samples were tested at 613 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 7790423 samples. 15054 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1093266 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.