Coronavirus: Highest cases in a day; new deaths 59

Bangladesh government on Thursday reported 6,469 more coronavirus cases, the highest number of infections in a day, bringing the total number to 6,17,764.

In the last 24 hours, 59 new deaths from the virus were recorded. With this, the country's coronavirus death tally stood at 9,105.

The health directorate made the disclosure in a press release today.

Of the total patients, 5,44,938 recovered, with 2,539 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 28,198 samples in the past day. With this, a total of 46,98,774 samples have, so far, been tested.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. 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 129,594,382 people and killed 2,830,627 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 104,500,042 across the world.

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