Thirty seven more people died from deadly virus corona while 1608 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Wednesday day (May 19) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 12248 and 783737 respectively.
The release said that during the time 20528 samples were tested at 466 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 5755446 samples. 1923 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 726132 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.