The mortality rate stood at 1.47 percent, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
Besides, 1,014 new cases pushed the caseload to 513,510.
So far, 457,459 patients – 89.08 percent, with 1,389 new ones, have recovered.
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Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 5,00000-mark on December 20.
The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 7,000 on December 12.
Until now, 32,27,598 tests have been carried out, including 13,204 new ones. So far, 15.91 percent of the tests turned out to be positive.
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Bangladesh is seeing 3015.21 infections, 2,686.09 recoveries and 44.38 deaths per million, the DGHS said.
The government has been warning of a second wave of Covid-19 in winter and urging people to properly follow health safety measures. It has adopted a ‘no mask, no service’ policy.
On Monday, the government announced that the country would get Covid-19 vaccines for some 45 million people by May-June next year.
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“We’ll get 30 million doses for 15 million people at the end of January or early February next year. Sixty million more doses for 30 million people will arrive by May-June,” Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam told the media.
Global Covid-19 situation
The global COVID-19 caseload crossed 82 million on Thursday amid reports of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant affecting a number of countries.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) put the caseload at 82,667,945 with 1,804,138 fatalities.
In the US, the worst-hit country, the infection tally topped 19.7 million, while the death toll climbed to 342,312.
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AP reported that California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the infection found in Southern California during an online conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The announcement came 24 hours after word of the first reported U.S. variant infection, which emerged in Colorado. That person was identified Wednesday as a Colorado National Guardsman who had been sent to help out at a nursing home struggling with an outbreak. Health officials said a second Guard member may have it too.
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The cases triggered a host of questions about how the version circulating in England arrived in the U.S. and whether it is too late to stop it now, with top experts saying it is probably already spreading elsewhere in the United States.
Brazil registered 193,875 deaths from COVID-19 with total caseload of 7,619,200.
The South American country has the third-largest COVID-19 outbreak in the world.
Meanwhile, India’s COVID-19 tally reached 10,244,852 while the death toll mounted to 148,439 as of Thursday morning.