COVID-19: 34 New Deaths, New Cases 3,504

Coronavirus cases in Bangladesh keep surging as health officials confirmed another 3,504 cases in the last 24 hours as of Saturday.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 1,33,978.

According to the Directorate General of Health Services, the number of total infections and fatalities from the deadly virus stood at 1,695 respectively as 34 people died within this time frame. 

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, 58 laboratories across the country tested 15,157 samples, she added.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on 8 March. Since then, the country has been witnessing an increase in infections and deaths.

Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December and then spread to 213 countries and territories.

Global Situation

he confirmed COVID-19 cases have reached 9,776,963 million globally with 493,609 deaths as of Saturday morning.

Besides, more than 4.8 million recoveries have been confirmed, according to the latest tally of Johns Hopkins University.

The worst-hit US has recorded over 2.46 million confirmed cases and over 125,046 deaths while South American country Brazil has come up to the second position with 1,274,974 confirmed cases and 55,961 deaths so far.

Meanwhile, Russia, the third most infected country, has confirmed 619, 936 coronavirus cases and  8,770 deaths, followed by South Asian country India (490,401 cases), United Kingdom (310,836) and Peru (272,364)

Besides, The UK has the third-highest death toll at 43,498, followed by Italy with 34,708, France 29,781 and Spain 28,338, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned the number of coronavirus cases around the world is set to reach 10 million "within the next week."