Another day with 55 deaths from Cobid-19 in Bangladesh

As per today (7 July), 168,645 patients diagnosed with Covid-19 were reported in Bangladesh with 3027 new patients being positively screened over the last 24 hours.

This announcement was broadcast on Thursday by health authorities along with the news of 55 more deaths suffered for this virus, taking the total death to 2151.

Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of Health Directorate, said while presenting the regular online briefing on Thursday.

In the last 24 hours, 13,173 samples were examined and out of them 3,027 got positive results for the virus. 

Besides, 19,53 more have made recovery from the disease, raising the total number to 78,102, she said. 

The deadly virus spread to 213 countries and territories, killing some 540,846 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

As many as 117,47,386 people worldwide caught the virus. Among them, 67,41,786 people recovered from the virus, the website said.