Global coronavirus cases
Covid-19 cases reach near 1mn in India
The number of coronavirus cases in India surged by 28,000 cases on Tuesday and is approaching toward one million mark.
New 28,498 cases reported in the past 24 hours took the national total to 906,752. Cases have jumped by 100,000 in four days.
The Health Ministry also reported another 553 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities up to 23,727.
India has largely lifted its nationwide lockdown, and the virus has been spreading at a significant rate, prompting several big cities to impose partial lockdowns.
The southern city of Pune started a 10-day lockdown Tuesday in an attempt to break the chain of infections. Only essentials including milk shops, pharmacies, doctors’ clinics and emergency services will be allowed open.
Eight of India’s 28 states, including the worst-hit Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and New Delhi, account for nearly 90% of cases.
India is the third worst-affected country in terms of infections, only behind the United States and Brazil.
Nearly 10 mn children "may never return to school" after Covid-19 pandemic
Some 9.7 million children worldwide "could be forced out of school forever" by the end of this year, as a result of increasing poverty and budget cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
London-headquartered charity Save the Children made the warning on Monday.
In 12 countries, mainly in West and Central Africa but also including Yemen and Afghanistan, children are at extremely high risk of not going back to school after the lockdowns are lifted, while in another 28 countries, they are at high or moderate risk, the charity said in a report published on its website.
Lockdown measures during the pandemic saw a peak of 1.6 billion children out of school globally, according to the report.
Calling this an unprecedented education emergency, Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children, said: "We know the poorest, most marginalized children who were already the furthest behind have suffered the greatest loss."
In a mid-range budget scenario, some of the poorest countries in the world will see a shortfall of 77 billion U.S. dollars in education spending during the next 18 months, while in those countries where governments use education spending to tackle COVID-19, the figure could soar to 192 billion dollars by the end of 2021, the report said.
Ashing expressed worries that the impending budget crunch let existing inequality grow even wider between the rich and the poor, and between boys and girls.
Girls are at increased risk of gender-based violence, child marriage and teen pregnancy during school shutdown, the report said.
To address this education emergency, Save the Children, which has 29 national members worldwide, urges governments and donors to increase funding of education, with 35 billion dollars to be made available by the World Bank.
The agency also in its report calls on commercial creditors to suspend debt repayments by low-income countries, which could free up 14 billion dollars for investment in education.
Corona cases in Bangladesh 'marks sharp fall'
Bangladesh on Saturday registered 2,686 more new cases of the novel coronavirus amid a sharp fall in fresh infections in the last 24 hours, raising the national tally to 181,129.
Global death toll from coronavirus reaches 554,304
The death toll from Covid-19 crossed 554,304 and the confirmed cases stood 12,232, 745 as of Friday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
As per JHU data, Brazil has grabbed the second position after the US with 1,755,779 cases and 69,184 deaths while India taken the third position again with 767,296 cases. India has so far reported 21,129 deaths.
Meanwhile, Russia counted the fourth highest cases -- 706,240 -- till date.
Coronavirus in Bangladesh: 41 more die, 3,706 recover
Coronavirus death toll in Bangladesh rose to 2,238 on Thursday as 41 more people died from the virus infection during the last 24 hours.
Besides, total confirmed infections surged to 175, 494 as 3,360 new cases were detected after testing 15,632 samples in the period.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin.
The health authorities also counted 3,706 recovery during the period, taking the total number of recovered patients to 84,544.
Covid-19: Global confirmed cases cross 11.5 mn
Coronavirus cases across the globe reached 11,592,259 and the death toll from the deceased crossed 537,487 on Tuesday, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University.
According to JHU data, Brazil has come up to the second position after the US with 1,628,284 cases and 65,487 deaths as of Tuesday.
South Asian country India has come to the third position again with 697,413 Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 19,693 deaths.
Meanwhile, Russia counted the fourth highest Covid-19 cases- 686,852 till the date.
Global Covid-19 infections top 11.4 mn
The confirmed coronavirus cases reached 11,409,805 globally with 533,684 deaths and more than 6.1 million recoveries as of Monday morning.
According to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University, the worst-hit US has registered 2,880,130 confirmed cases with 129,906 fatalities.
Besides, Brazil, which has come up to the second position, recorded 64,867 deaths and 1, 603,055 confirmed cases while Russia counted the third highest Covid-19 cases- 680,283 till date.
Meanwhile, India registered a record daily number of 24,912 cases on Sunday, the
biggest daily spike since the first coronavirus detection in the country.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
Situation in Bangladesh
The confirmed coronavirus death toll in Bangladesh crossed 2,000 on Sunday.
Health authorities on the day confirmed the new death of 55 more people due to yhe deadly Covid-19 in a span of 24 hours which mounted the death toll in Bangladesh to 2,052.
Coronavirus death toll in Bangladesh crosses 2,000
Health authorities on Sunday confirmed the death of 55 more people due to deadly COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours which mounted the death toll in Bangladesh to 2,052.
Another 2,738 new patients were diagnosed with coronavirus during the period, raising the total number to 1,62,417.
The daily infection rate on Sunday was recorded 19.57 percent.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh sees lowest daily death since June 1, 3,288 new cases
Health authorities on Saturday reported the death of 29 more people due to deadly COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, which is the lowest number of death in a day that the country registered since June 1.
Coronavirus: Death toll nears 2,000 in Bangladesh, 3,114 new cases
Coronavirus cases in Bangladesh rose to 1,56, 391 on Friday as the health authorities detected 3114 new cases in a span of 24 hours.