79 more die of Covid-19 in a day

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79 more die of Covid-19 in a day

Published : Wednesday, 1 September, 2021 at 7:01 PM, Count : 1056

Seventy nine more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 26,274.

During the period, 3,062 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,03,680, the health directorate said in a press release on Wednesday.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus.

Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories.

To date, the epidemic infected 218,697,710 people and killed 4,536,837 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, the total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 195,552,880 across the world.

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