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Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 1,647,108

International Desk
17 Dec 2020 08:07:04 | Update: 17 Dec 2020 16:15:56
Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 1,647,108

The global tally of deaths from the novel coronavirus infection reached 1,647,108 as of Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.

Moreover, 74,140,841 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 20,506,112 infected patients 20,398,803 are in mild condition, which is 99.5 per cent, Worldometer records in its daily updates.

On the other hand, 107,309 of the currently infected patients are in serious condition, and their percentage is only 0.5.

So far, 41,904,111 people have recovered.

In Bangladesh, 27 more Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours as of Wednesday, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 7,156.

Besides, the tally of infections has surged to 495,841 as 1,632 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours.

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