Bangladesh reports 16 more Covid deaths

Sixteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,734.

During the period, 785 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,20,690, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Friday.

Of the total patients, 4,65,279 recovered, with 833 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 13,681 samples in the past day. With this, total sample test stood at 33,31,491.

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 88,598,530 people and killed 1,908,624 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 63,688,577 across the world.