Coronavirus deaths in Bangladesh cross 2500, cases near 2 lakh

The deaths tally from coronavirus in Bangladesh surpassed 2500 with 51 new fatalities in the past 24 hours. 

With this, the country witnessed a total of 2,547 deaths from the disease, according to the Directorate General of Health Services. 

The country's total number of coronavirus cases reached 199,357 with 3,034 people newly caught the highly contagious disease. 

Professor Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the DGHS, came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin on Friday.

She said 13,460 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of sample tests to 10,06,791 in the country.

Some 108,725 coronavirus patients have, so far, made recovery, with 1,762 recovered in the past day.

Prof Nasima said new infection rate was 22.54 percent. 

The rate of recovery, so far, was 54.54 percent while mortality rate 1.28 percent, the oficial added.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8. Since then the country has been witnessing sharp increase in the infections and deaths. 

Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and then spread to newer countries and territories.

As of Friday, the epidemic infected 13,967,833 people and killed 593,100 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 8,297,653 across the world.