42 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 2,751. Besides, 2,744 more people tested positive for the virus, making 213,254 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 Wednesday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 11,976 samples were collected and 12,050 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 1,066,609 samples have been tested in the country.
With 1,805 new recoveries, a total of 117,202 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
Among the deceased, 30 were males and 12 females.
37 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals whereas five died at home.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 615,462 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 14,898,145 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 5,364,118 infected patients, 5,300,427 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 63,691 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.
So far, 8,431,382 people have recovered.
