218 more die from coronavirus in a day

Some 218 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 20,685.

During the period, 9,369 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 12,49,484, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday.

The daily count came from a test of 30,980 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 10,78,212 recovered, with 14,017 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 198,165,904 people and killed 4,227,761 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 179,041,550 across the world.

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