Covid-19: Global death toll reaches 621,890

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 621,890 as of Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 15,166,401 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 5,394,222 infected patients, 5,327,981 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 66,241 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 8,605,487 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 42 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, taking the death toll to 2,751. Besides, 2,744 more people tested positive for the virus, making 213,254 confirmed cases in total.