Covid-19: Global death toll now 429,666

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 429,666 as of Sunday morning, according to the data provided by the Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 7,764,977 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 3,392,743 infected patients, 3,338,661 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 54,082 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.

So far, 3,693,293 people have recovered.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh on Saturday reported 44 deaths and 2,856 new positive cases for novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours.

The latest figures take the death toll to 1,139 and the total number of infections to 84,379.