Bangladesh sees 8,462 Covid deaths, 5,50,330 cases in a year


Dhaka, Mar 07: Eleven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 8,462.

During the period, 606 more people were diagnosed with the virus, raising the total infection to 5,50,330, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release on Sunday.


Of the total patients, 5,03,003 recovered, with 1037 made recovery in the last 24 hours.

The daily count came from test of 14,092 samples in the past day. With this, a total of 41,46,205 samples have, so far, been tested.


Till date, the epidemic infected 117,129,124 people and killed 2,601,033 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 92,700,670 across the world.