Coronavirus: Global death toll reaches 416,0843
The global death toll from the highly contagious Covid-19 stood at 416,084 as the number of confirmed cases reached 7,357,011 on Thursday morning, in line with the Centre for System Research and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.
According to JHU info, Brazil has come up to the next position after All of us with 772,416 verified coronavirus cases by Thursday. The South American nation counted 39, 680 deaths from the virus till the time.
Among various other countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the best recorded deaths of 112,895 patients and about 1,999, 552 confirmed cases.
In the US, NY state alone counted 30,542 deaths.
The UK has the second-highest death toll at 41,213, accompanied by Italy with 34,114, France 29,322 and Spain 27,136, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus cases were initial reported in China found in December last year.
The World Overall 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 death on March 18 nonetheless it has been seeing a good sharp rise found in both new situations and deaths in new weeks.
The health authorities reported 74,865 coronavirus cases and 1,012 deaths in the country as of Wednesday.
Among the full total confirmed cases, 15,899 persons have up to now recovered.
Altogether 3,190 new coronavirus circumstances were recorded within the last 24 hours after assessment 15, 965 samples at 55 laboratories across the country as of Wednesday.
To curb the pass on of the virus, Bangladesh announced a general holiday from March 26 to May 30 but public transports, government and private offices were opened over a limited scale eventually from May 31.
Crimson, Yellow and Green Zone
To curb further infections, the federal government has made a decision to divide the country in red, yellow and green zones in line with the number of infections.
East Rajabazar found in the capital has truly gone under experimental lockdown from Tuesday midnight seeing that the number of cases rose in this region and it was recognized as ‘Red Zone.’
Earlier on Saturday, Express Minister for Consumer Administration Farhad Hossain said the federal government is likely to designate areas according to coloured zones to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Different parameters have already been set to separate the three and avoid arbitrary zoning.
Areas with 30 infections per 100,000 of population will come to be marked as ‘red area’, he said.
Beyond your capital, areas with ten confirmed situations per 100,000 persons will be categorised as Red Zone, he explained.
Areas that contain three to 19 conditions per 100,000 of population will end up being categorised seeing that ‘yellow zones’, he said, adding that areas with even fewer situations will be ‘green zones’.
