Covid-19 Cases Continue to Rise Further

The infection of Covid-19 is still rising steeply in the country, with newly reported 3,567 active cases in the last 24 hours till 8 am Wednesday. 

Besides, the country's death toll from the virus now stands at 5,838 with 25 newly reported deaths, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The number of novel coronavirus cases in the country now stands at 580,808.

The country's maiden cases were reported on March 8 this year and the first death from the virus was reported on March 18.

Neighboring India today on lockdown anniversary, records over 47 thousand new Covid-19 infections which is a huge jump inactive cases. According to the Union health ministry update on Wednesday morning, this took the nationwide tally to 11,734,058, the data showed. The country also recorded 275 related fatalities, its highest one-day toll this year. The fatality count pushed the death toll up to 1,60,441, the ministry data showed.

The dreaded Covid-19 claimed the lives of 27.47 lakh people globally and nearly  124,862,242 people were infected to date.