Eighteen more people died from deadly virus corona while 3554 people were infected with the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Tuesday (March 23) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 8738 and 577241 respectively.
The release said that during the time 25954 samples were tested at 219 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 4457184 samples. 1835 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 525994 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.