Five more people died from deadly virus corona while 428 people were infected with the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was divulged to the media on Wednesday (February 24) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 8379 and 544344 respectively.
The release said that during the time 16192 samples were tested at 214 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 3987676 samples. 911 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 493798 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.