Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 559,481

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 559,481 as of Saturday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 12,461,962 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 4,729,348 infected patients, 4,670,450 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,898 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 7,333,038 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 37 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 2,275.

Besides, 2,949 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 178,443 confirmed cases in total.