172 more die of Covid-19 in a day

Some 172 more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 24,719.

During the period, 7,248 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 14,40,644, the health directorate said in a press release on Wednesday.

The daily count came from a test of 41,014 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 13,27,028 recovered, with 12,112 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 209,558,900 people and killed 4,398,234 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 187,829,140 across the world.

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