43 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Sunday, taking the death toll to 1,738. Besides, 3,809 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 137,787 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 Sunday afternoon.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 17,034 samples were collected and 18,099 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 730,197 samples have been tested in the country.
With 1,409 new recoveries, a total of 55,727 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
The deceased, of whom 31 were males and 14 females, belonged to the following age groups: two were between 21-30 years, one between 31-40, seven were between 41-50 years, 13 were between 51-60 years, 12 between 61-70 seven were between 71-80 and one was between 81-90 years.
Under division-wise categorisation, 21 hailed from the Dhaka division, ten from Chattogram, three each from Khulna and Sylhet, two each from Rajshahi and Barishal, and one each from the Rangpur and Mymensingh divisions.
30 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals whereas 12 died at home. The remaining one was already dead when brought to the hospital.
Meanwhile, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 498,135 as of Sunday morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 9,950,945 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 4,121,878 infected patients, 4,064,130 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,748 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.
So far, 5,031,722 people have recovered.
