Coronavirus: Global infections cross 8m

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 436,322 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data provided by the Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 8,015,053 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 3,460,336 infected patients, 3,405,766 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 54,570 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.

So far, 3,843,751 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 38 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Monday, taking the death toll to 1,209. Besides, 3,099 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 90,619 confirmed cases in total.