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| People carrying dead body who died in covid -19 in the graveyard . |
264 fatalities reported in 24 hours as toll nears 22,000.
Bangladesh logged the highest daily Covid deaths of 264 people in 24 hours until Thursday morning.
The country also logged 12,744 fresh Covid cases in the timeline.
With the latest statistics, the total death toll hits 21,902 and infections to 13,22,654 since it had recorded the first Covid infection on March 8, 2020, and death from the viral disease on March 18, 2020.
The new record surpassed the previous high of 258 on July 27.
As many as 46,995 samples were tested across the country, with a positivity rate of 27.12%.
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.
The fast spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 4.2 million lives and infected over 201 million people across the world till Thursday afternoon, according to Worldometer.
As many as 181.13 million people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 220 countries and territories across the planet.
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