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| Volunteers carry dead body of covid patients to bury in the graveyard . |
Bangladesh on Friday touched the grim milestone of 10 lakh Covid cases while record 212 new deaths from the viral disease were logged around the country on the day.
This was the fifth day that Covid figures broke earlier records in a way or the other as over 11,000 Covid cases were registered for the fourth straight day while the top four daily infection figures were also recorded on these four days after the viral disease emerged in the country on March 8, 2020.
This was the second day that the daily death toll exceeded the 200 mark, two days after 201 deaths were recorded on July 7.
With the latest development, the total number of deaths reached 16,004, while the number of total infections rose to 1,000,543 in the country .
The health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a strain of coronavirus named Sars-CoV-2, on March 8, 2020.
Since November last year, five variants of the virus have been detected in Bangladesh including the Indian variant (B.1.617.2) being the latest. It was later renamed as the Delta variant.
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