Coronavirus: New deaths 56, cases 1386

Special Correspondent Dhaka
Published: 9 May 2021, 04:21 PM | Updated: 9 May 2021, 06:07 PM
Coronavirus: New deaths 56, cases 1386

Some 56 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 11,974.

During the period, 1,386 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 7,73,573, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday.

Of the total patients, 7,10,162 recovered, with 3,329 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from a test of 16,915 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 158,369,043 people and killed 3,298,155 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 135,868,831 across the world.

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