Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 515,542

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection stood at 515,542 as of Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 10,664,433 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 4,344,974 infected patients, 4,287,015 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 57,959 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 5,451,472 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 41 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 1,888.

Besides, 3,775 more people tested positive, making 149,258 confirmed cases in total.