Bangladesh saw a daily infection rate of 7.52% with 910 new infections reported until early Monday. The country has recorded 516,929 Covid-19 cases so far.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh surged to 7,452 with 24 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until Sunday morning.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,428 with 30 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until Saturday morning.

Former state minister AKM Zahangir Hossain has died from Covid-19 at a city hospital.

Amid global alarm after detection of new strains of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom and South Africa, Bangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 7,378 until Thursday with 19 more deaths in the past 24 hours.

Partex Group chairman and former Member of Parliament MA Hashem has been put on life support at a hospital in the capital.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday said UK returnees must be there in quarantine for seven days as a new strain of coronavirus has been detected there.

Covid-19 fatalities in Bangladesh rose to 7,359 with 30 more deaths recorded in 24 hours until Wednesday morning.

Abdul Kader, popular television actor who has recently been diagnosed with stage IV cancer, tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.

More than 75.5 million people have been infected with coronavirus globally and over 1.67 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).