51 more die of Covid-19 in a day
The government on Wednesday reported 51 more deaths from coronavirus in a span of 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,058.
During the period, it recorded 2,901 more infections, raising the total to 15,36,341, the health directorate said in a press release today.
The daily count came from a test of 28,615 samples in the past day.
Of the total patients, 14,90,541 recovered, with 3,873 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 226,746,956 people and killed 4,664,820 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 203,506,213 across the world.
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