Forty more people died from deadly virus corona while 1877 people were infected with the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was divulged to the media on Tuesday (December 15) by DGHS through a press release.
According to a press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 7129 and 494209 respectively.
The release said that during the time 19054 samples were tested at 140 laboratories across the country making the total test of 3005512 samples. 2884 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 426029 so far.
It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 while the first death occurred on March 18.