Coronavirus: Global death toll reaches 471,591

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 471,591 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 9,073,386 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 3,775,770 infected patients, 3,717,882 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,888 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 4,510,707 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 38 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Monday, taking the death toll to 1,502.

Besides, 3,480 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 115,786 confirmed cases in total.