Bangladesh COVID-19 tally rises to 55,000; 746 dead

at 6:43 pm
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New Delhi (NVI): Bangladesh reported spike in coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with the detection of 2,695 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 55,140.

The country also recorded a total of 37 death due to the novel coronavirus during this period, raising the death tally to 746, according to United News of Bangladesh.

So far, a total of 11,590 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 470 more patients made recovery.

Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 21.02 per cent and the mortality rate is 1.35 percent in country.

So far, a total of 5,333 policemen have been infected with coronavirus across the country while being on duty.