Bangladesh logged an additional 16 deaths and 1,684 infections from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on Wednesday, counting the death toll to 5,593 and infections to 3,82,959.
Among the deceased, 13 were male and three were female patients.
A Directorate General of Health Services press release came up with the latest COVID-19 data.
Some 14,411 specimens were tested in the timeline at 109 labs across the country.
Bangladesh had tested a total of 21,12,448 specimens as of October 14.
A total of 1,576 patients were declared free from novel coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours totalling the recovery to 2,97,449.
Bangladesh on March 8 reported the first COVID-19 positive cases while the first death was logged ten days later on March 18.
