81 more die of Covid-19 in 24hrs

Some 81 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 13,868.

During the period, 6,058 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 8,72,935, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday.

The daily count came from a test of 30,391 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 7,94,783 recovered, with 3,230 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

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 180,451,134 people and killed 3,909,322 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 165,162,037 across the world.

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