Bangladesh
Bangladesh records 14 new COVID-19 deaths in past 24 hours
Dhaka: Bangladesh registered 14 new COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, media reports said on Saturday.
Coronavirus cases surged by 1,531 in the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday to 430,496, according to data released by the Directorate General of Health Services, reported bdnews24.
The death toll due to the highly infectious disease in the country now stands at 6173.
In the last 24 hours, 11,795 samples were examined and out of them 1,531 got positive results for the virus.
Apart from, 1,462 more recovered from the virus, taking the total recoveries to 347,849, the statement added.
Bangladesh reported its first three cases of COVID-19 on March 8.
The new coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year. The World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
The deadly virus spread to 213 countries and territories, killing some 1,310,978 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.
As many as 53,833,627 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 37,580,303 people recovered from the virus, the website said.
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