Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 476,911

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 476,911 as of Wednesday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 9,237,691 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 3,832,219 infected patients, 3,774,308 are in mild condition, which is 98 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,911 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only two.

So far, 4,613,425 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 43 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Tuesday, taking the death toll to 1,545.

Besides, 3,412 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 119,198 confirmed cases in total.