<span style="color: #222222;">In Bangladesh, Corona positive cases continued to rise with 2,423 new cases and 35 deaths reported during the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''With this, the total number of people infected by Corona virus in the country has gone up to 57,563.<br />''<br />''So far, 781 people have died due to coronavirus. 571 people have recovered in the country in the last 24 hours.<br />''<br />''Amid rising cases of Corona infections in the country, Additional Director General of Directorate General of Health Services, Professor Nasima Sultana said mortality rate due to COVID-19 in Bangladesh is 1.3 percent which is much lower than the global average.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the government today shifted Health Secretary Md. Asadul Islam to the planning division.<br />''<br />''Md. Abdul Mannan has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Health Services Division.</span>