Coronavirus: New deaths 78, cases 3031

Some 78 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 11,228.

During the period, 3,031 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 7,51,659, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday.

Of the total patients, 6,66,927 recovered, with 5,234 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from a test of 24,237 samples in the past day.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the 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.

To date, the epidemic infected 148,545,193 people and killed 3,135,707 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, the total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 126,240,859 across the world.

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