The government recorded 295 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours.
With this, the total infections in the country stood at 15,80,005 and fatalities rose to 28,034, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday.
The daily count came from a test of 22,870 samples in the past day.
Of the total patients, 15,44,664 recovered, with 247 in the last 24 hours.
Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus.
Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories.
To date, the epidemic infected 271,193,225 people and killed 5,331,367 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.
However, the total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 243,887,145 across the world.
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