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Dr Himangshu Lal Roy, deputy director of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, said they identified 36 people with covid-19 on the day while the rest 20 were diagnosed with the virus at Sylhet University of Science and Technology.
GM Nurunnobi Azad Jewel, a Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology lecturer of the SUST, said a total of 58 samples were tested at the PCR labs set up in the university.
The fresh cases were spread around all four districts within Sylhet division.
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A total of 5,899 covid-19 patients have so far made full recovery from the disease in Sylhet while 177 died from the virus.
Bangladesh has recorded 2,92,625 confirmed cases and 3,907 deaths from coronavirus as of Saturday.