Global Covid-19 death toll stands at 488,740

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 488,740 as of Friday morning, according to the data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 9,583,144 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 3,938,843 infected patients, 3,881,224 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,619 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 4,821,456 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 39 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Thursday, taking the death toll to 1,621.

Besides, 3,946 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 126,606 confirmed cases in total.