Covid-19 in Bangladesh: New deaths 16, cases 2187

Sixteen more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,624.

During the period, 2,187 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,64,939, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Thursday.

The daily count came from test of 20,925 samples in the past day.

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 121,914,549 people and killed 2,694,637 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 98,255,283 across the world.

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