Data put together by JHU show that 24,996,456 people have so far been diagnosed with the virus in 188 countries until morning.
Meanwhile, the death tally from coronavirus reached 842,499.
The United States remains the worst-hit country with 5,961,094 confirmed cases and 182,779 deaths. The US is followed by Brazil that recorded 3,846,153 cases and 120,262 deaths so far.
Apart from these, the following positions were taken by India, Russia, Peru and South Africa.
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Coronavirus situation in Bangladesh
The death toll from coronavirus in Bangladesh rose to 4,206 on Saturday with 32 new fatalities reported in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, health authorities detected 2,131 new patients pushing up the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country to 3,08,925.
Alongside the growing number of deaths and infections, the rate of recovery has increased too as 2,027 patients recovered from in a day taking the number of total recoveries to 1,98,863.
Currently, the recovery rate is 64.37 percent.