Covid-19: Global infections top 20mn

The global death toll from the novel coronavirus infection reached 734,664 as of Tuesday morning, according to the data provided by the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

Moreover, 20,011,186 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 6,397,655 infected patients 6,333,114 are in mild condition, which is 99 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates. On the other hand, 64,541 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only one.

So far, 12,218,090 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 39 patients died from Covid-19 in the country over the last 24 hours as of Monday, taking the death toll to 3,438.

Besides, 2,907 more people tested positive for the virus, which makes 260,507 confirmed cases in total.