Covid-19: Global death toll reaches 678,695

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 678,695 as of Saturday morning, according to the data provided by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

Moreover, 17,531,059 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed around the world.

Although cases of new infection keep growing among the infected world population currently, most of them are in mild condition.

Among the currently 5,914,449 infected patients, 5,848,846 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 65,603 (of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 10,272,824 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 28 patients died from Covid-19 over the last 24 hours as of Friday, taking the death toll to 3,111.

Besides, 2,772 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 237,661 confirmed cases in total.