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Global coronavirus infections surpass 13m

International Desk
14 Jul 2020 08:33:03 | Update: 14 Jul 2020 12:53:39
Global coronavirus infections surpass 13m
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Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 571,840 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 13,061,792 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 4,963,854 infected patients, 4,904,973 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 58,881 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 7,221,190 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 39 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Monday, taking the death toll to 2,391.

Besides, 3,099 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 186,894 confirmed cases in total.

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