Bangladesh COVID-19 tally tops 78,000 mark; 1,049 dead

at 6:20 pm

New Delhi (NVI): Bangladesh today saw another surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. A whopping 3,187 new cases were reported, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 78,052.

The country also recorded a total of 37 deaths due to the novel coronavirus during this period, raising the death tally to 1,049, according to United News of Bangladesh.

Notably, the country crossed the 1,000 mark in death toll within 91 days after recording the first death on March 11.

So far, a total of 15,899 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 563 more patients made recovery.

The detection rate of new patients was recorded at 1.91 per cent today.

Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 21.24 per cent and the mortality rate is 1.35 per cent in the country.