37 patients died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Tuesday, taking the death toll to 709. Besides, 2,911 more people tested positive, which is the highest single-day record of new infections in the country, making 52,445 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 Tuesday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 14,950 samples were collected and 12,704 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 333,073 samples have been tested in the country.
With 523 new recoveries, a total of 11,120 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Among the 37 deceased, 33 were males and four females. They belonged to the following age groups: one was aged between 21-30 years, four between 31-40, one between 41-50, ten were between 51-60, nine between 61-70, ten aged between 71-80 and two were between 81-90 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, ten hailed from the Dhaka division, 15 from Chattogram, two from Rajshahi, three from Barishal, four from Sylhet, two from Rangpur and one from the Mymensingh division.
28 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals while the remaining nine died at home.
Meanwhile, global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 375,526 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 6,265,496 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 3,085,151 infected patients, 3,031,748 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,403 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 2,695,829 people have recovered.
