Bangladesh sees lowest Covid-19 deaths after 3 months

Bangladesh reported 38 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, hitting the lowest fatalities after three months.

With this, the country's coronavirus deaths stood at 26,832, the health directorate said in a press release on Friday.

Earlier on June 9, 36 people were reported to have died of COVID-19.

In the past 24 hours, 2,325 people newly contracted the virus, taking the tally to 15,27,215.

The daily count came from a test of 26,878 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 14,72,067 recovered, with 3,856 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 224,130,821 people and killed 4,622,908 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 200,737,891 across the world.

MU/SU