Bangladesh reports 21 more coronavirus deaths

The deaths related to the novel coronavirus stood at 5,093 in Bangladesh on Friday, with 21 more fatalities in the past 24 hours.

During the period, 1,383 people newly caught the deadly virus, taking the country's tally to 3,56,767, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release.

The press statement said 12,473 samples were tested in the past day. With this, the number of total sample tests reached 18,88,010.

However, 1,932 more COVID-19 patients made recovery, bringing the total recovery to 2,67,024.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8. Since then the country has been struggling to limit spread of the highly contagious virus.

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 32,441,896 people and killed 988,197 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 23,948,020 across the world.