Sun News Desk: Bangladesh government has reported one Covid-19 death and at the same time 258 cases recorded in the last 24 hours.
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The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Saturday (August 19).
The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country is currently 29,320 and With the new infections, the total number of Coronavirus cases rose to 20,10,748, the release added.
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The new cases were found after testing 5,834 samples across the country in the last 24 hours.
During the period, 221 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the illness. And the total number of recoveries now stands at 19,54,806, said the release.
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Note that Bangladesh detected its first coronavirus patient on 8 March in 2020 and recorded its first death of the disease on 18 March that year.
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