28 patients died from Covid-19 in Bangladesh over the last 24 hours as of Saturday (May 30), taking the death toll to 610.
Besides, 1,764 more people tested positive, which is the highest single-day record of infections in the country, making 44,608 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 Saturday.
Dr Nasima mentioned that a total of 1,443 samples were collected and 9987 tested in the last 24 hours. So far, a total of 29,7054 samples have been tested in the country.
With 360 new recoveries, a total of 9,375 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.
The deceased, of whom 25 were males and 3 females, belonged to the following age groups: four were between 31-40, four between 41-50, nine between 51-60, six between 61-70, three between 71-80 and two between 81-90.
26 breathed their last while undergoing treatment at various hospitals and 2 at home.
Under division-wise categorization, 18 hailed from Dhaka, 7 from Chattogram, 2 from Rangpur and 1 from Sylhet.
Meanwhile, global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 364,849 as of Saturday (May 30) morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
So far, 5,923,432 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 3,004,235 infected patients, 2,950,500 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,735 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 2,659,250 people have recovered.
