Five more people died from deadly virus corona while 408 people were infected with the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was divulged to the media on Friday (February 12) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 8253 and 539975 respectively.
The release said that during the time 14328 samples were tested at 210 laboratories across the country making the total test of 3822345 samples. 422 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 486393 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.