Two hundred forty six more people died from deadly virus corona while 15989 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Monday (August 2) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 21162 and 1280317 respectively.
The release said that during the time 53462 samples were tested at 613 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 7843885 samples. 15482 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1108748 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.