Death toll keeps rising on, record new deaths

As of today (16 June), 94,481 Covid-19 infected patients have been confirmed in Bangladesh, with 3862 new patients being screened positively in the last 24 hours.

Health authorities aired this announcement on Tuesday along with the report of 53 more deaths incurred for this virus, which brings the total death to 1262.

Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana put forth this latest figures in an online bulletin concerning the Covid-19 situation on Tuesday afternoon.

She added around 2,237 patients have been recovered and released from hospitals in the meantime this same period to ignite the light of hope. Counting that, Covid-19's winning number stands at 36,264.

She also reported that over the last 24 hours 17,214 samples of suspect coronavirus were tested. In this research, there are more than 61 coronavirus laboratories across the country were involved.