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Therefore, the number of active cases is now 94,846.
Some 12,027 samples were tested in the 24 hours, Dr Nasima said, adding that 709 people were also put in isolation during the period.
The data shows 43,164 people were infected and 36,434 people recovered in the last two weeks.
Meanwhile, finding of new cases has also dropped with the decline in daily testing numbers, according to the data.
Some 88,479 samples were tested between July 11 and 17, and 21,914 people were found Covid-19 positive. Some 19,301 people were diagnosed with the disease after 84,283 samples were tested between July 18 and yesterday.
Of the 35 dead, 28 were males and seven females, and they were aged between 31 and above 100, Dr Nasima added.
Of them, 11 were from Dhaka, six each from Chattogram and Khulna, four each from Sylhet and Rangpur, three from Barishal, and one from Rajshahi divisions.
On March 8, the first three coronavirus cases were confirmed in the country. Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus death on March 18.
According to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, on April 5, the country reported 18 new cases, representing a 26 percent increase from the previous day. Since then till yesterday, the day-to-day increases have exceeded by 20 percent.
Record shows Bangladesh crossed the figure of 100 confirmed cases on the 6th of April and it took only eight days to cross 1,000 cases.
On May 3, the Covid-19 cases reached 10,000, and 50,000 confirmed cases were recorded on June 1.
The Covid-19 cases jumped to 1 lakh on June 17 and crossed the grim milestone of 2 lakh on July 17.

Iraq forces free German woman kidnapped in Baghdad: officials
Afp, Baghdad
A German woman kidnapped in Baghdad earlier this week was freed overnight, Iraqi officials said yesterday, without providing additional details.
“Security forces have freed activist Hella Mewis,” Iraq’s military spokesman Yahya Rasool said in a statement.
There were no details on the timing of the operation, the force that carried it out or who had kidnapped Mewis.
A spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Abdelsattar Bayraqdar, said the operation had been backed by a Baghdad investigative court.
“We are still investigating this crime,” he said.
Mewis, who ran arts programmes at Iraqi collective Tarkib, was kidnapped late on Monday as she was leaving her office.
“She was riding her bicycle when two cars, one of them a white pickup truck (of the type) used by some security forces, were seen kidnapping her,” a security source told AFP.
Police officers at the local station witnessed the abduction but did not intervene, the source added.
Mewis’s phone was still unreachable yesterday and her friends had not heard from her.
The German embassy in Baghdad had no immediate comment.
A friend of Mewis told AFP she had been worried following the killing of Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi scholar who had been supportive of anti-government protests last year.
“I spoke to her (Mewis) last week and she was really involved in the protests too, so she was nervous after the assassination,” said the friend, Dhikra Sarsam.
Large demonstrations erupted in Baghdad and Iraq’s Shia-majority south last year, railing against a government seen as corrupt, inept and beholden to Iran.
Around 550 people died in protest-related violence, including two dozen activists who were shot dead by unidentified men, usually on motorcycles.
Dozens more were kidnapped, some of whom were later released near their homes. The whereabouts of others remain unknown.
Amnesty International has slammed the incidents as “a growing lethal campaign of harassment, intimidation, abductions and deliberate killings of activists and protesters”.
This year has seen a worrying spike in abductions of foreigners, who had not been targeted in several years.
On New Year’s Eve, two French freelance journalists were taken hostage for 36 hours and three French NGO workers were held for two months.
In both cases, neither the kidnappers nor the conditions of their releases were revealed.