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The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 402,699 as of Monday morning, according to the data by Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 7,006,436 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 3,219,929 infected patients, 3,166,177 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,752 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.
So far, 3,140,718 people have recovered.
In Bangladesh, 42 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Sunday, which is the highest single-day record of fatality in the country, taking the death toll to 888.
Besides, 2,743 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 65,769 confirmed cases in total.
