Eight people died from deadly virus corona while 759 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Saturday ( February 26) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 29024 and 1941861 respectively.
The release said that 7343 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1800425 so far.
During the period 18305 samples were tested in 874 authorized labs making a total 13355192 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.