Coronavirus in Bangladesh: New deaths 17, cases 528

Seventeen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,072.

During the period, 528 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,33,444, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Wednesday.

Of the total patients, 4,77,935 recovered, with 509 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 15,401 samples in the past day. With this, a total of 36,00,508 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 100,922,270 people and killed 2,169,466 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 72,961,358 across the world.