Govt records 23 more Covid deaths, 569 cases

Twenty three more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 7,906.

During the period, 569 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,27,632, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Sunday.

Of the total patients, 4,72,437 recovered, with 681 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 13,446 samples in the past day. With this, a total of 34,57,453 samples have, so far, been tested.  

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.

Till date, the epidemic infected 95,025,427 people and killed 2,032,468 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 67,848,531 across the world.