Coronavirus Cases Reach 65,769

Bangladesh continues to see a quick rise in the number of coronavirus cases on Sunday as health authorities confirmed the detection of 2,743 cases in the 24-hour period until the morning.

The refreshed number of confirmed cases in the country now stands 65,769.

"During this period, 42 patients died, bringing the death count to 888," said Prof. Nasima Sultana, Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Health Services (DGHS), during a regular online briefing.

This is so far the highest death toll in a single day.

Meanwhile, 578 more people recovered from the COVID-19 disease in this period, taking the total number of recovered patients to 13,903.

In the last 24 hours, 52 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 13,136 samples, she added.

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

Global Situation

he global death toll from Covid-19 reached 398,321 on Sunday morning while the confirmed cases were 6,855,858, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.

According to JHU data, Brazil has come up to the second position after US with 645,771 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Sunday. The South American country counted 35,026 deaths from the virus till the date.

Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the highest recorded deaths of 109,791 patients and about 1,919,430 confirmed cases.

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.