Ten more people died from deadly virus corona while 8407 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Tuesday ( January 18) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28164 and 1632788 respectively.
The release said that 475 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1553795 so far.
During the period 35916 samples were tested in 852 authorized labs making a total 11929321 samples so far.
It may be mentioned here that the first case of corona infection was detected in Bangladesh on last March 8 (2020) while the first death occurred on March 18.