COVID-19 Claims 781 Lives; Cases Reach 57,563

Bangladesh continues to see a quick rise in the number of coronavirus cases on Thursday.

Health authorities confirmed the detection of 2,423 cases in the 24-hour period until the morning, taking the number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,563.

"During this period, 35 patients died, bringing the death count to 781," said Prof. Nasima Sultana, Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Health Services (DGHS), during a regular online briefing.

Meanwhile, 571 more people recovered from the COVID-19 disease in this period, taking the total number of recovered patients to  12,161.

In the last 24 hours, 50 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 12,694 samples, she added.

Bangladesh confirmed its first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.

Global Situation

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the world has gone up to 6,429,453 while the death toll reached 385,873 on Thursday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.

According to JHU data, Brazil has 584,016 confirmed coronavirus cases, the second-highest in the world after the USA. The South American country lost 32,548 lives to COVID-19 to date.

The US has the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths. It recorded 107,148 deaths and 1,851,530 cases so far. In the US, New York State alone counted 30,019 deaths to date.

The UK has the second-highest death toll at 39, 811, followed by Italy with 33,601, France 29,024 and Spain 27,128, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Some countries like China and New Zealand seem to have the pandemic under control. Besides, Europe is in the process of lifting lockdown.

Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.