Covid-19: Global infections surpass 4.8 million

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 318,481 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 4,801,943 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 2,665,095 infected patients, 2,620,328 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 44,767 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.

So far, 1,786,875 people have recovered.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh on Monday reported 21 deaths and 1,602 new positive cases for novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours, both of which are the highest single-day records in the country so far. The latest figures take the death toll to 349 and the total number of infections to 23,870.