Eighteen more people died from deadly virus corona while 617 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Sunday (October 3) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 27573 and 1557964 respectively.
The release said that during the time 21246 simples were tested at 821 authorized laboratories across the country making the total test of 9794490 samples. 1112 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1518754 so far.
It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.