14 died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Thursday, taking the death toll to 283. Besides, 1,041 more people tested positive, which makes 18,863 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 Thursday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 7,837 samples were collected and 7,392 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 1,36,638 samples have been tested in the country.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 297,197 as of Thursday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 4,347,015 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, 98 percent are in mild condition.
Of the currently infected 2,472,089 patients, 2,426,169 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. 45,920 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 1,548,547 people have recovered.
