Forty three more people died from deadly virus corona while 8354 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Tuesday ( February 8) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28670 and 1879255 respectively.
The release said that 10800 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1622857 so far.
During the period 41698 samples were tested in 868 authorized labs making a total 12871578 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.