The death toll from coronavirus has reached 2,874 as 38 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
Besides, 2,520 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 221,178.
Professor Nasima Sultana, ADG of the Directorate General of Health Services, said while presenting the daily health bulletin on Saturday.
In the last 24 hours, 10,446 samples were examined and out of them 2,520 got positive results for the virus. Apart from, 1,114 more recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 122,090.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of COVID-19 on March 8.
The new coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year. The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
The deadly virus spread to 213 countries and territories, killing some 643,109 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.
As many as 15,960,507 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 9,757,011 people recovered from the virus, the website said.