Bangladesh recorded 27 new deaths from coronavirus on Friday, taking the tally to 3,333.
“We’ve identified 2,851 new cases in the last 24 hours after testing 12,699 samples,” Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said an online briefing on Friday.
During this period, 1,760 patients recovered. So far, 1,45,584 patients have recovered from Covid-19.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.
Coronavirus cases worldwide pass 19 million
The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has passed 19 million, according to an AFP tally from official sources on Thursday.
At least 19,000,553 cases and 712,315 deaths have now been registered.
Forty percent of cases were in the United States and Brazil, the two worst-affected countries with 4,870,367 cases (159,864 deaths) and 2,912,212 infections (98,493 deaths) respectively.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic in March.
The World Health Organization on Thursday warned against “vaccine nationalism,” saying vaccine-hogging richer countries would not be safe coronavirus havens if poor nations remained exposed.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it would be in wealthier nations’ interests to ensure that any vaccines eventually produced to protect against the new coronavirus were shared globally.
“Vaccine nationalism is not good, it will not help us,” Tedros told the Aspen Security Forum in the United States, via video-link from the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva.UNB
