Bangladesh reported the highest-ever single-day coronavirus (COVID-19) infections on Monday, according to the statistics of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
A total of 1034 people tested positive afresh in the last 24 hours, raising the number of such cases in the country to 15,691.
Besides, eleven more people died from coronavirus in the country during the same period, Additional Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana said.
With this, the death toll due to the deadly virus infection reached at 239, she added.
Prof Dr Nasima came up with the disclosure in the daily online news bulletin at the Management Information System (MIS) in the afternoon.
About the recovery, the DGHS official said 252 more patients recovered from the infection, taking the total recovery number to 2902.
Among the eleven deceased, six were female and five male, Dr Nasima said.
In the past 24 hours, a total of 7,208 samples were tested across the country.
Earlier on Sunday, 887 more people were tested positive and 14 more died of the viral infection.
Globally, a total of 4,196,784 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus, and 284,045 of them have died until 3:12pm on Monday, according to Worldometer info.
As the virus began sweeping across the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
Bangladesh registered the first case of such infection on March 08.
