Shawdesh Desk:

Bangladesh on Wednesday registered another 33 deaths from coronavirus infection raising the death tally to 2,457. The mortality rate in the country now stands at 1.28 percent.

The country also recorded 3,533 new cases of infection testing 14,002 samples raising the number of total infections at 197,123.

Additional Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana revealed the information at its daily health bulletin broadcast from Mohakhali.

The Health authorities also reported recovery of 1796 patients during the period, taking the total recoveries to 105,023.

The global confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 13 million, with over 570,000 fatalities and more than 7.2 million recoveries, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Meanwhile, the global confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 13.3 million, with over 578,000 fatalities, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Besides, more than 7.3 million recoveries have been recorded globally.

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.