Global Covid-19 death toll at 425,330

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 425,330 as of Saturday (June 13) morning, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.

So far, 7,629,227 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 3,347,977 infected patients, 3,294,090 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 53,887 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.

So far, 3,956,272 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 46 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 1,095. Besides, 3,471 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 81,523 confirmed cases in total.