Coronavirus: Global deaths reach 528,953

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 528,953 as of Sunday morning, according to the data by Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 11,199,747 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 4,407,518 infected patients, 4,348,988 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,530 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 6,037,683 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 29 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Saturday, taking the death toll to 1,997.

Besides, 3,288 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 159,679 confirmed cases in total.