Bangladesh today confirmed seven more deaths from the novel coronavirus and 709 new cases of infection testing 5,941 samples in 35 labs in the last 24 hours.

With this, the death toll from the deadly virus rose to 206 and the number of total infections stood at 13,134. 

Among the dead patients, five are male and two female.

Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), disclosed the information in the daily online health bulletin, held at the Management Information System (MIS) on Friday afternoon.

In the last 24 hours, several coronavirus testing laboratories across the country, tested 5,941 samples, she added.

Some 191 more coronavirus infected patients were released from various hospitals after making full recovery from the extremely infectious disease in the past 24 hours, she said, adding that a total of 2,101 have returned to their homes after full recovery from different hospitals.

Earlier on April 16, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) declared the entire country as ‘vulnerable zone’ to virus infection.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh government extended the general holidays until May 15 to contain the spread of highly infectious virus.

Bangladesh confirmed its first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.

The virus has killed 270,879 people globally and infected 3,929,717 so far.