Govt records 273 new Covid cases, 1 death

The government recorded 273 new COVID-19 cases and one death in the last 24 hours.

With this, the total infections in the country stood at 15,76,284 and fatalities rose to 27,981, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday.

The daily count came from a test of 19,802 samples in the past day.

Of the total patients, 15,40,965 recovered, with 368 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 262,549,838 people and killed 5,227,930 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 237,119,893 across the world.

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