Covid-19: Global deaths top 0.5m, cases 10m

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection crossed the half-a-million mark, reaching 501,233 as of Monday morning, according to the data by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 10,115,912 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 4,185,953 infected patients, 4,128,283 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,670 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 5,123,425 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 43 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Sunday, taking the death toll to 1,738. Besides, 3,809 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 137,787 confirmed cases in total.