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Bangladesh reports 51 COVID-19 deaths, 1, 08,725 total recoveries
DHAKA, July 17, 2020 (BSS) – Bangladesh today recorded 51 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths and 3,034 fresh cases overnight.
The recovery count rose to 1, 08,725 after another 1,762 patients were discharged from the hospitals during the period, a top health official said.
“Fifty-one more COVID-19 patients died in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll from the pandemic to 2,547,” Additional Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Nasima Sultana told a virtual media briefing at DGHS in the city this afternoon.
She said the tally of infections has surged to 1, 99,357 as 3,024 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
The health official also informed that a total of 13,860 samples were tested at 80 authorized laboratories across the country during the time.
Among the total infections, 54.54 percent patients have recovered, while 1.28 percent died so far since the first COVID-19 positive cases were reported in the country on March 8, she said.
Bangladesh confirmed the first coronavirus death on March 18, ten days after the detection of the first COVID-19 cases.
Globally, over 13.81 million people have been infected by the coronavirus and 590,005 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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