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Bangladesh reports record virus cases, highest recoveries
DHAKA, May 29, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh today reported 2,523 fresh
coronavirus (COVID-19) cases overnight, the highest in a daily count,
bringing the tally of infections to 42,844.
“The fatalities from the pandemic have also surged to 582 as 23 patients
died in the last 24 hours,” 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 recovery count rose to 9,015 after another 590 patients, the
highest in a single day, were discharged from the hospitals.
The health official also informed that the highest number of 11,301 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 5.81 million people have been infected by the novel
coronavirus and 360,437 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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