Seventeen more people died from deadly virus corona while 15527 people got infected by the virus in the last 24 hours across the country.
This information was sent to the media on Wednesday ( January 26) by DGHS through a press release.
According to the press release, the latest deaths and cases of infection have brought the toll to 28273 and 1731524 respectively.
The release said that 1052 people have recovered bringing the recovery figure to 156006 so far.
During the period 49073 samples were tested in 852 authorized labs making a total 12261254 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.