Covid-19: Global death toll reaches 583,359

Global deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 583,359 as of Thursday morning, according to the data by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 13,512,693 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 5,067,610 infected patients, 5,007,993 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 59,617 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 7,530,731 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 33 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 2,457.

Besides, 3,533 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 193,590 confirmed cases in total.