Bangladesh reports 15 more deaths, 1600 fresh cases

Bangladesh on Thursday recorded 1600 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 3,84,559.

Of the total patients, 2,99,229 recovered, with 1,780 made recovery in the last 24 hours. 

The daily count came from test of 14,104 samples in the past day. As of today, the number of total sample test stood at 21,16,552. 

However, the country today reported 15 more deaths from the deadly virus, taking the tally to 5,608.

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 Thursday, the epidemic infected 38,794,699 people and killed 1,097,632 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 29,152,292 across the world.