Bangladesh reports 25 new virus deaths, 363 cases

Bangladesh on Sunday logs 25 new virus deaths and 363 cases in the last 24 hours.

With the latest update, the death toll in the country reached 12,149 and cases to 780,059, said the news release of Directorate General of Health Services.

A total of 5,430 samples were tested in the last 24 hours while the rate of detection was 6.68 per cent.

As many as 601 patients recovered from the disease in last 24 hours taking the total number to 722,036.

Bangladesh detected its first coronavirus patient on 8 March last year and recorded its first death in the disease on 18 March that year.