Coronavirus: 3,489 New Cases with 46 Deaths

Bangladesh today registered 55 more deaths from the novel coronavirus and 3,489 fresh cases of infection in the last 24 hours.

The death toll of the deadly virus increased to 2,197 and the total number of infections stood at 1,72,134.

Additional Director General of the Health Directorate Professor Dr Nasima Sultana made the disclosure available today during a virtual briefing.

In the last 24 hours, 15,672 samplesn were tested in the last 24 hours.

Global Situation

The global death toll from coronavirus reached 5,43,535 while the confirmed coronavirus 11,798, 678 as of Wednesday morning, according to the Center for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

According to JHU data, Brazil has grabbed the second position after the US with 1,668,589 cases and 66,741 deaths while India taken the third position again with 719,665 cases. India has so far reported 20,160 deaths.

Meanwhile, Russia counted the fourth highest Covid-19 cases -- 693,215 -- till date.

Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the highest recorded deaths of 131,455 patients and about 2,993,759 confirmed cases.

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.