Seventeen more people died from deadly virus corona while 1497 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Wednesday (May 26) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 12458 and 793693 respectively.
The release said that during the time 16434 samples were tested at 486 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 5871353 samples. 1056 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 733866 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.