Daily positivity rate has jumped to 20.88 percent overnight, after testing as many as 31,980 samples.
The infection rate jumped from 17.82 percent on Sunday to 20.88 percent on Monday.
In a 24-hour count till Monday morning, health authorities in Bangladesh reported 6,676 new Covid-19 cases.
With the latest development, the tally of Covid-19 infections in the country has reached 1,624,387.
Meanwhile, 22 more cases of Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected in Bangladesh, taking the total tally to 55 till Sunday morning, according to GISAID, the global database for genomic data on the coronavirus.
In the last day, ten more fatalities were Covid-19 were registered, according to government data,
With the, then aggregate Covid-19 fatalities in the country has reached 28,154.
On the flip side, 427 people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 1,553,320.
The figures were recorded between Sunday 8:00 am till Monday 8:00 am.
The latest Covid-19 situation in the country was revealed by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in its routine statement.
