In Bangladesh, the confirmed cases from coronavirus infection have surpassed the 10,000-mark as the country recorded the highest single day cases with 688 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours.
With the latest figure, the number of total confirmed cases jumped to 10,143.
The country also witnessed deaths of five more people from Covid-19 over the same period, taking the number of fatalities to 182 in the country.
Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Additional Director General (Administration) Prof Nasima Sultana revealed the latest figures in a daily online bulletin on Covid-19 situation from Dhaka on Monday afternoon.
She said as many as 6,315 samples have been collected in past 24 hours and of those, 6,260 have been tested in 33 laboratories across the country, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 87,694.
The rate of sample collection and test are 21.11% and 16.61% higher than those in the previous day, she said.
Earlier, Bangladesh recorded the highest single day cases (665) from the coronavirus infection on Sunday.
The DGHS official said all the five deceased were men. Of them, three were from Dhaka, and one each from Sylhet and Mymensingh.
Three of them were above 60 years old while one was aged between 50 and 60 and the other was within aged 31 to 40, she said.
