Another patient has died of COVID-19 in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, bringing the total fatalities to 27 this year. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said no new cases have been identified from the 218 samples tested nationwide during the period leading up to Sunday morning. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Bangladesh has conducted over 15.7 million tests, reporting more than 2.05 million cases and 29,523 deaths. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, 7,559 people died from COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The DGHS has issued fresh advisories following a rise in cases of a new sub-variant of the virus in India and other neighbouring countries.
