Seventeen more people died from deadly virus corona while 9614 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Saturday ( January 22) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28209 and 1674230 respectively.
The release said that 482 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 1556079 so far.
During the period 34311 samples were tested in 852 authorized labs making a total 12082026 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.