COVID-19 Cases Jump to 14,675; 14 More Deaths

Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Bangladesh as 887 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infected people to 14,657.

This is the highest number of confirmed patients in the country since the first case was reported.

Besides, a record number of 14 more people died from the disease in the country in the last 24 hours till Saturday

"With the new figures, the death toll rose to 228, while the number of new cases to 14,657," said Prof. Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in her regular online health bulletin in the afternoon.

In the last 24 hours, 36 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 5,738 samples, she added.

Bangladesh reported the first confirmed coronavirus case on 8 March and the first virus death on 18 March.