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Bangladesh COVID-19 cases top 40,000
DHAKA, May 28, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh today exceeded 40,000 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases as 2,029 more people tested positive overnight, the highest in a daily count.
“Fifteen more fatalities were reported from the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll from the pandemic to 559,” DGHS Additional Director General Prof Nasima Sultana told a virtual media briefing at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in the city.
She said the caseload has surged to 4,0 321 after 2,029 new COVID-19 cases were detected.
Nasima said the recovery count rose to 8,425 after another 500 patients were discharged from the hospitals in the same period.
She also informed that a total of 9,310 samples were tested at 49 authorised labs across the country during that time.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.
Globally, over 5.69 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 355,758 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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