Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 615,462

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 615,462 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 14,898,145 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 5,364,118 infected patients, 5,300,427 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 63,691 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 8,431,382 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 41 patients died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours as of Tuesday, taking the death toll to 2,709. Besides, 3,057 more people tested positive for the virus, making 210,510 confirmed cases in total.