Covid-19: Global death toll reaches 520,634

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 520,634 as of Friday morning, according to the data by Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 10,836,500 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 4,320,050 infected patients, 4,261,914 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,136 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 5,723,808 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 38 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Thursday, taking the death toll to 1,926.

Besides, the total number of infections crossed the 150,000-mark with 4,019 more people being tested positive, making 153,277 confirmed cases in total.