16 patients died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Saturday. Besides, 930 more people tested positive which makes 20995 confirmed cases in total.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Friday afternoon.
Among the dead, 12 are from Dhaka division, two from Chittagong division and two from Khulna division.
All of the 16 deceased were males. They belonged to the following age groups: one was aged between 31-40 years, five between 41-50, six between 51-60, three between 61-70, and one was between 71-80.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 6501 samples were collected and 6782 tested in the last 24 hours. With 235 new patients, a total of 4117 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 307,486 as of Saturday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 4,538,406 cases have been confirmed around the world after Covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, was first reported in China in December last year.
Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.
Meanwhile, among the currently 2,561,672 infected patients, 2,516,667 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 45,005 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 1,758,039 people have recovered.
Meanwhile, 15 died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 283. Besides, 1,202 more people tested positive, which makes 20,065 confirmed cases in total.
