Dhaka, Sept. 26 -- The number of daily coronavirus cases in Bangladesh has dropped below 1,000 for the first time in more than four months on Saturday.

On the day, only 818 new cases have been reported.

The health authorities in the country earlier recorded 698 new infections on May 17.

As many as 17,818 samples were tested in the 24 hours to 8am on Saturday, yielding an infection rate of 4.59%. The overall infection rate in the country stands at 16.15%.

Besides, another 25 people died of Covid-19 during the same period.

At the same time, 965 more patients recovered from the disease, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The latest additions took the country's death toll to 27,393, the total caseload to 1,5...