Bangladesh on Monday reported 21 deaths and 1,602 new positive cases for novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, both of which are the highest single-day records in the country so far. The latest figures take the death toll to 349 and the total number of infections to 23,870.
Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at a regular online briefing on Monday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 9933 samples were collected and 9788 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 185,196 samples have been tested in the country.
With 212 new recoveries, a total of 4,585 patients recovered from coronavirus till date.
Of the 21 deceased, 12 hailed from Dhaka division, 7 from Chittagong division, 1 from Sylhet division and 1 from Rajshahi division.
Among the deceased, 17 were males and 4 females. They belonged to the following age groups: two were aged between 31-40 years, six between 41-50, eight were aged between 51-60, and five between 61-70.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 315,185 as of Monday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 4,713,620 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 2,627,034 infected patients, 2,582,214 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 44,820 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 1,733,963 people have recovered.
