More sixteen people died from deadly virus corona while 1595 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Tuesday ( February 22) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28990 and 1936837 respectively.
The release said that 8357 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1771615 so far.
During the period 23547 samples were tested in 874 authorized labs making a total 13260511 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.