Coronavirus: Global death toll reaches 411,144
The global loss of life toll from the highly contagious Covid-19 stood at 411,144 as the number of confirmed cases reached 7,237,093 on Wednesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.
According to JHU data, Brazil has come up to the second position after All of us with 739,503 verified coronavirus cases by Wednesday. The South American country counted 38, 406 deaths from the virus till the time.
Among different countries, the united states has been the worst-hit with the best recorded deaths of 111,979 patients and about 1,979, 089,verified cases.
In the US, NY state alone counted 30,458 deaths.
The UK gets the second-highest death toll at 40,968, accompanied by Italy with 34,043, France 29,299 and Spain 27,136, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China found in December last year.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh confirmed its primary cases on March 8 and the first loss of life on March 18 but it has been seeing a good sharp rise in both fresh cases and deaths found in recent weeks.
The health authorities about Tuesday reported 71,675 coronavirus cases and 975 deaths in the country.
Among the total confirmed cases, 15,336 persons have up to now recovered.
Altogether 3,117 latest coronavirus cases were recorded in the last 24 hours after testing 14,664 samples at 55 laboratories in the united states as of Tuesday.
To curb the spread of the virus, Bangladesh announced an over-all holiday from March 26 to May 30 but public transports, government and private offices were opened about a restricted scale eventually from May 31.
Red, Yellow and Green Zone
To curb further infections, the government has made a decision to divide the united states in crimson, yellow and green zones in line with the number of infections.
East Rajabazar found in the capital has gone in experimental lockdown from Tuesday midnight as being the amount of cases rose in this spot and it was identified as ‘Red Zone.’
Earlier on Saturday, Talk about Minister for Consumer Administration Farhad Hossain said the government is likely to designate areas according to colored zones to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Different parameters have already been set to separate the three and prevent arbitrary zoning.
Areas with 30 infections per 100,000 of population will end up being marked as ‘red area’, he said.
Beyond your capital, areas with ten confirmed cases per 100,000 persons will be categorized as Red Zone, he said.
Areas which have three to 19 cases per 100,000 of population will end up being categorized due to ‘yellow zones’, he said, adding that areas with even fewer cases might be ‘green zones’.
