Highest 4,008 Cases in 24 Hrs; 43 Deaths

Bangladesh saw a big jump in coronavirus cases on Wednesday, after the health authorities confirmed that 4,008 new patients detected in the last 24 hours, bringing the total cases to 98,489.

COVID-19 claimed 43 lives in the same period, taking the death toll in the country to 1,305.

Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily online briefing.

In the last 24 hours, 61 laboratories across the country tested 17,527 samples, she added.

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The death toll from COVID-19 pandemic stood at 441,439 while the number of confirmed cases has gone up to 8,152, 885  as of Wednesday  morning, according to the Center for System Science and Engineering of  Johns Hopkins University.

According to JHU data, Brazil and Russia have come up to the second and the third positions after the US with 923, 189 and 544,725 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Wednesday.
Meanwhile, South Asian country India has come up to the fourth position after Russia with 343,091 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 9,900 deaths.