Seventeen more people died from deadly virus corona while 15807 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Thursday ( January 27) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28288 and 1747331 respectively.
The release said that 1037 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1561043 so far.
During the period 49425 samples were tested in 852 authorized labs making a total 12310679 samples 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.