Global Covid-19 cases near 26 mln
The confirmed coronavirus cases around the world neared 26 million on Thursday morning, in line with the latest tally supplied by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
The JHU data shows a complete of 25,934,466 people have so far been identified as having the virus in several countries as the global total death toll from the virus reached 861,512.
AMERICA reported the highest caseload and death toll with 6,113,160 cases and 185,704 deaths, accounting for more than one fifth of the global death toll.
Brazil recorded the world's second major numbers with 3,997,865 cases and 123,780 deaths, accompanied by India with 3,769,523 cases and 66,333 deaths.
Other countries with over 30,000 fatalities include Mexico, Britain, Italy and France.
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Bangladesh Coronavirus situation
Health authorities of the country detected 2582 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday after testing 15,204 samples in the last 24 hours.
Besides, the infectious disease claimed 35 more lives through the period, taking the total death toll to 4,351.
The fatality rate in Bangladesh is 1.37 percent.
Up to now, 3,17,528 Covid-19 patients have already been detected in the united states since March 8 after testing 15,77,61 samples.
