Lowest 12 coronavirus deaths in 7 months

Bangladesh reported 12 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, hitting the lowest fatalities in seven months.

With this, the country's coronavirus deaths stood at 27,647, the health directorate said in a press release on Thursday.

Earlier on March 17, the government recorded 11 deaths from the virus.

In the past 24 hours, 663 people newly contracted the virus, taking the tally to 15,60,818.

The daily count came from a test of 22,321 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 15,21,777 recovered, with 664 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 237,178,088 people and killed 4,842,796 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 214,320,171 across the world.

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