Bangladesh, May 9 -- Bangladesh reported 56 more Coronavirus-related deaths and 1,386 new cases in 24 hours until Sunday morning.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said the new fatalities took the country's death toll to 11,934 while the mortality rate remained static at 1.54 percent.

Besides, the DGHS said, the new cases were detected after testing 16,915 samples, pushing up the total case count to 773,513

The daily infection rate fell to 8.19%, which was 8.74% a day before, according to the DGHS.

The number of Covid deaths came down to as low as 50 after over a month on Wednesday.

Bangladesh saw 50 deaths on April 1 and it had kept rising since then.

The daily death toll soared to over 100 during April 16-19 and on...