<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh reported another death from Covid- 19 with 620 more cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">With the new numbers, country's total fatalities rose to 29,347 while the total caseload to 2,020,768, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The daily case test positivity rate rises to 15.38 per cent from Thursday’s 14.13 per cent as 4,031 samples were tested.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest deceased was a man from Sylhet division.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.45 percent while the recovery rate declined to 97.10 per cent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">In August, the country reported 32 Covid-linked deaths and 6,689 cases.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Bangladesh registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 the same year. UNB</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>