Coronavirus: Govt reports 39 more deaths

Bangladesh government reported 39 more COVID-19 deaths and 3634 new cases in the last 24 hours.

With this, the country's total infections and fatalities reached respectively 5,91,806 and 8,869, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday.

Of the total patients, 5,33,922 recovered, with 1,971 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 24,664 samples in the past day.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8. Since then it has been struggling to curb spread of the highly contagious virus.

Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and then its outbreak was seen across the world

However, the epidemic infected 126,818,877 people and killed 2,781,783 across the globe till date, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles coronavirus cases and deaths. 

Total number of people who recovered from the deadly virus reached 102,243,249 across the world.

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