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Bangladesh reports highest COVID-19 cases, deaths top 500
DHAKA, May 25, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh today reported 1975 fresh cases
from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the highest in a daily count, taking
the caseload to 35,585, health officials said.
“The fatalities from the pandemic also surged to 501 as 21 more patients
died in the last 24 hours,” DGHS Additional Director General (administration)
Prof Nasima Sultana told a virtual media briefing at the Directorate General
of Health Services (DGHS) in the city.
She said the recovery count rose to 7334 after 433 patients were
discharged from hospitals during the period.
Nasima said the recovery rate from the disease in Bangladesh currently
stands at 20.61 percent while the mortality rate is 1.41 percent.
She informed that a total of 9,451 samples were tested at 48 authorised
laboratories across the country at the same time.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days
after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.
Globally, over 5.41 million people have been infected by the novel
coronavirus and 345,122 have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins
University.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories
since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
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