Another 37 additional deaths, 3,462 new cases reported in 24hrs
Bangladesh's COVID-19 death toll and cases are rising gradually.
Thirty-seven extra deaths and 3,462 cases had been reported in last 24 hrs till Wednesday afternoon.
Today, the death tally stood in 1,582 while the infection cases at 1,22,660.
Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Companies (DGHS), confirmed the problem in the daily online bulletin on the COVID-19 situation in the afternoon.
She urged everyone to stay in the home and follow medical rules issued by the DGHS and World Health Organisation. She as well requested people to employ masks outdoor and clean hands with soap.
The country has been seeing a spike in the amount of cases in recent weeks.
Dr Nasima said a complete of 16,433 samples were tested in 66 labs across the country during the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, 2,031 extra COVID-19 patients possess recovered, raising the total recovery number to 49,666.
UNB adds: The global loss of life toll from Covid-19 reached 476,911 each morning, in line with the Centre for Program Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University. The quantity of confirmed cases stands at 9,237,691.
South American region Brazil has appear to the second position with 1,145,906 confirmed circumstances and 52,645 deaths up to now. Meanwhile, Russia, the third most infected country, confirmed 598,878 coronavirus cases and 8,349 deaths as of Wednesday.
India has appear to the fourth situation with 440,215 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 14,011 deaths.
Among the countries, the united states has been the worst-hit with the best recorded deaths of 121,217 patients and about 2,345,854 confirmed cases.
The UK has the third-highest death toll at 43,011, followed by Italy with 34,675, France 29,723 and Spain 28,325, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year.
The World Wellbeing Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
