As the highly transmissible Delta variant keeps sweeping through the country, Bangladesh logged off 237 Coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, taking the death toll to 20,016. The country has been seeing nearly 200 deaths a day for the past two weeks, and shattered the records of daily cases and deaths almost every other day. Besides, 16,230 more people came out Covid positive after the test of 53,877  samples, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). This is the highest-ever single-day transmission after the country saw the largest-ever 15,192 Covid cases on Monday. Also read: Covid claims 31 more lives in Khulna division

The health authorities in Bangladesh on Thursday confirmed 15 new coronavirus-related deaths and 509 new cases, raising the death toll to 8,087.

The global COVID caseload has crossed 85.6 million, while the deaths have surged to over 1.85 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.