The number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh crossed 2,00,000-mark on Saturday as the health authorities detected 2,709 new patients in the last 24 hours.   The new cases were detected after conducting only 10,923 RT-PCR tests.   Bangladesh on the 19th week of infection registered 2,02,266 cases after the first three  cases were detected on March 8.   Although the number of tests falls, the daily infection rate has mounted up to 24.80 percent.  Total 19.86 percent of people found infected with Covid-19 disease against the 10,17,674 tests conducted so far.   With 34 more  deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, 2,581 patients have died from the disease so far. The mortality rate in Bangladesh is now 1.28 percent.

Bangladesh on Saturday registered 2,686 more new cases of the novel coronavirus amid a sharp fall in fresh infections in the last 24 hours, raising the national tally to 181,129.