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Bangladesh reports 10 Covid cases, no death in 24hrs

Bangladesh logged 10 fresh Coronavirus cases in 24 hours till Monday morning taking the total caseload to 19,52,726.

The country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,127 as no death was reported during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

In the last 24 hours, 2,477 samples were examined and out of them 10 got positive results for the virus. Apart from, 304 more recovered from the disease, taking the total recoveries to 1,896,001.

Bangladesh reported its first three cases of COVID-19 on March 8 in 2020.

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 in 2020.

The deadly virus spread to 226 countries and territories, killing 6,262,069 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

As many as 513,666,524 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 467,911,833 people recovered from the virus, the website said.