Covid-19: Global number of recovered patients cross 8mn

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus reached 605,162 and 8,123,727 people recovered from the infection as of Monday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 14,450,223 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 5,300,151 infected patients, 5,240,334 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 59,817 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

In Bangladesh, 37 patients died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours as of Sunday, taking the death toll to 2,618. Besides, 2,459 more people tested positive for the virus, making 204,525 confirmed cases in total.