The death toll from Coronavirus has reached 27,510 as 23 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.
Besides, 860 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 1,555,911.
Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Thursday.
In the last 24 hours, 26,569 samples were examined and out of them 860 got positive results for the virus. Apart from, 979 more recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 1,515,941, the press release added.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of COVID-19 on March 8 last year.
The new coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December in 2019.
The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11 last year.
The deadly virus spread to 220 countries and territories, killing some 4,517,926 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.
As many as 217,359,913 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 194,292,019 people recovered from the virus, the website said.