COVID-19: Cases Near 90,000; Deaths Now 1171

Bangladesh saw another rise in the number of coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the health authorities, have reported the largest number of 3,141 new patients in the last 24 hours.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 87,520.

"During the same period, the country also saw 32 deaths, the highest number in a day, bringing the country's death toll to 1171," said Prof. Nasima Sultana, Additional Director-General of the Directorate-General for Health Services (DGHS) at his daily online briefing.

In the last 24 hours, 60 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 14,505 samples, she said.

In addition, 903 patients recovered during the same period, she added.

Bangladesh confirmed its first cases on 8 March and its first death on 18 March, but there has been a sharp increase in both new cases and deaths in recent weeks.

Global situation

The global death toll from Covid-19 reached 429,666 on Sunday morning while the confirmed cases were 7,764,977, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.

According to JHU data, Brazil and Russia have come up to the second and third positions after the US with 850,514 and 519,458 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Sunday.

Meanwhile, South Asian country India has come up to the fourth position after Russia with 308,993 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 8,884 deaths.

On the other hand, South American country Brazil counted the second-highest deaths after the US and reported 42,720 lives from the virus till the date.

Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the highest recorded deaths of 115,420 patients and about 2,074,082 confirmed cases.

In the US, New York State alone counted 30,795 deaths till the date.

The UK has the third-highest death toll at 41,747, followed by Italy with 34,301, France 29,401 and Spain 27,136, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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.