15 patients died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Thursday, taking the death toll to 559. Besides, 2,029 more people tested positive, which is the highest single-day record of infections in the country, making 40,321 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.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 9,267 samples were collected and 9,310 tested including some previously collected samples in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 275,776 samples have been tested in the country.
With 500 new recoveries, a total of 8,425 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
The deceased, of whom eleven were males and four females, belonged to the following age groups: two were between 31-40 years, five between 51-60, five between 61-70, two between 71-80 and one was between 91-100.
Under division-wise categorisation, 7 hailed from Dhaka division and 8 from Chittagong.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 355,615 as of Thursday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 5,690,951 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.
Among the currently 2,934,523 infected patients, 2,881,548 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 52,975 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 2,350,071 people have recovered.
