Covid-19: Global deaths reach 632,173

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 632,173 as of Friday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

So far, 15,445,043 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 5,480,099 infected patients, 5,413,843 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 66,256 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 8,763,516 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 50 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Thursday, taking the death toll to 2,801. Besides, 2,856 more people tested positive for the virus, making 216,110 confirmed cases in total.