Desk Report
Published: 05 Jan 2021, 04:02 pm
Bangladesh has logged 20 more deaths from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 8 am on Tuesday.
The country's death toll from this deadly pathogen is now 7.670, according to a press release issued by the Directorate-General of Health Services (DGHS).
In the meantime, 991 people tested positive for the virus in the country.
The total number of novel coronavirus positive cases in the country is now 5,17,920.
The latest day's infection rate was 6.85% out of the total tests though the overall positivity rate in the country was 15.76% till date.
The death rate in the country now stands at 1.48%.