Lowest Covid-19 deaths after 2 months

The government recorded 80 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, the lowest fatality in 63 days, taking the death toll to 25,926.

Earlier on June 26, 77 people were reported to have died from the virus.

During the period, 3,436 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 14,89,589, the health directorate said in a press release on Saturday.

The daily count came from a test of 25,129 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 14,09,231 recovered, with 4,861 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 216,360,695 people and killed 4,501,915 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 193,353,179 across the world.

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