Covid-19: Global death toll reaches 524,614

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 524,614 as of Saturday morning, according to the data by Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 11,047,217 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 4,363,656 infected patients, 4,304,820 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,836 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 6,297,911 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 42 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 1,968.

Besides, 3,114 more people tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh, which makes 156,391 confirmed cases in total.