Bangladesh confirmed 32 more deaths from the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours till 8am on Thursday.

The country's death toll from the virus now stands at 4,383, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

In the last 24 hours, 2,158 people tested positive for Covid-19 and the number of novel coronavirus cases in the country now stands at 3,19,686.

Of the dead patients, 24 were men and eight were women. Moreover, 15 of them hailed from Dhaka, seven from Chattogram, three from Sylhet, six from Rangpur and one from Mymensingh district.

31 of them died in different hospitals while one died at home, says the press release.

A total of 2,964 patients were declared free of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours and the total number of recoveries reached 213,980. 

Some 14,617 samples were collected in the last 24 hours and 14,422 were tested in 93 labs across the country. So far 1,592,038 samples have been tested.

The deadly virus has killed 867,347 people globally and infected 26,177,535 so far.