Govt records 210 new Covid cases, 2 deaths

The government recorded 210 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours.

With this, the total infections in the country stood at 15,72,945 and fatalities rose to 27,928, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday.

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 254,724,262 people and killed 5,125,284 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 230,308,914 across the world.

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