The death toll from coronavirus has reached 3,983 as 42 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
Besides, 2,485 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 297,083.
Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Monday.
In the last 24 hours, 13,383 samples were examined and out of them 2,485 got positive results for the virus. Apart from, 3,784 more recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 182,875, the press release added.
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 812,812 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.
As many as 23,608,794 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 16,100,740 people recovered from the virus, the website said.