Twenty one people died from deadly virus corona while 1987 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Sunday ( February 20) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28965 and 1933291 respectively.
The release said that 9252 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1754584 so far.
During the period 25405 samples were tested in 874 authorized labs making a total 1328867 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.