COVID-19 Cases Surpass 1,50,000 Mark

Coronavirus transmission keeps worsening in Bangladesh as the number of newly infected patients continues to rise simultaneously with the death toll.

As of Thursday, a total of 4,019 new virus cases were confirmed, taking the total number of cases to 1,53,277.

In addition, 38 patients died from in the meantime, taking the total number of deaths to a death toll of 1,926.

Additional Director General (Admin) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Dr Nasima Sultana announced the details during a routine online briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

Dr Nasima reported a total of 17,947 samples were collected and 18,362 tested in the last 24 hours. A total of 8,02,697 samples were conducted in the country to date.

With 4,334 new recoveries, a total of 66,442 patients recovered from coronavirus to date.

Global Situation

The global death toll from coronavirus infections stood at 515,542 on Thursday morning while the confirmed cases crossed 10,664,433, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

The JHU data shows Brazil as the second most infected country after the US with 1,448, 753 coronavirus cases and 60,632 deaths as of Thursday morning.

Meanwhile, India has occupied the fourth position after Russia with 585,493 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 17,400 deaths.

Russia counted the third-highest Covid-19 cases- 653,479, after the US and Brazil to date.

Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit one with the highest recorded deaths of 128,044 patients and about 2,684,416 confirmed cases.

In the US, New York alone counted 32,043 deaths to date.

The UK has the third-highest death toll of 43,991, followed by Italy with 34,788, France 29,864 and Spain 28,355, according to the JHU data.  

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.