COVID-19: 3,240 New Cases, 37 Deaths in 24Hrs

Bangladesh Continues to see a rapid rise in numbers of coronavirus cases on Saturday after the health authorities confirmed that 3,240 new patients detected in the last 24 hours, bringing the total cases to 1,08,775.

COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus claimed 37 lives in the same period, taking the death toll in the country to 1,425.

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 14,031 samples, she added.

Bangladesh confirmed its first cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18 but it has been seeing a sharp rise in both new cases and deaths in recent weeks.

Global Situation

The confirmed coronavirus cases have exceeded 8.6 million globally, with over 459,437 fatalities and more than 4.2 million recoveries, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University on Saturday.

According to the data, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has reached 8,639,023.

Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the highest recorded deaths of 119,099 patients and about 2,219,976 confirmed cases.

Meanwhile, the confirmed coronavirus cases in Brazil have been surpassed one million with 48,654 deaths, making the Latin American country the second worst-hit country in the world following the US.

According to JHU data, Russia and India have come up to the third positions and fourth position after the US and Brazil with 568,292 and 380,532 confirmed cases as of Saturday with 7,831 and  12,573 fatalities respectively.