Online Desk : The death toll from COVID-19 has reached 15,229 as 164 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours.

Besides, 9,964 more tested positive for the virus, raising the number of such cases to 954,881.

Directorate General of Health Services confirmed the information through a press release on Monday.

In the last 24 hours, 34,002 samples were examined and out of them 9,964 got positive results for the virus. Apart from, 5,185 more recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 839,082, the press release added.

Bangladesh reported its first three cases of COVID-19 on March 8 last year.

The new coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December in 2019.

The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11 last year.

The deadly virus spread to 220 countries and territories, killing some 3,995,263 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

As many as 184,667,364 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 168,991,061 people recovered from the virus, the website said.