Dhaka, June 16 -- Another person has died of COVID-19 and 25 new cases have been reported in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours.

The deceased was a woman aged between 41 and 50. She was undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital in Dhaka.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the latest death brings the total number of COVID-related fatalities this year to five.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases has risen to 284.

In the past 24 hours, 25 new cases have been found after testing 231 samples.

The detection rate according to the sample test is 10.82 percent.

Of these, four people in the Dhaka Division tested positive for COVID-19 out of 50 samples, 11 in the Chattogram Division out of 137 samples, nine in...