226 more die of Covid-19 in 24 hrs

Some 226 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 17,278.

During the period, 12,236 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 10,71,774, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday.

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 189,322,036 people and killed 4,076,984 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 172,884,409 across the world.

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