Shawdesh desk:

A total of 704,365 people died from coronavirus worldwide in the  213 countries and territories since the virus emerged in Wuhan of China last December, according to latest data from worldometer.

So far, 18,704,378 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus  till Wednesday (Bangladesh Time 10:35 am). Of them, 11,917,802 patients have been considered recovered, the source said.

Apart from this, the number of active cases are 6,082,211.

With the new tally in the 24-hour, 7,176  patients died from coronavirus while 260,894 coronavirus cases have been diagnosed, and 244,885 patients have been considered recovered.

Among the coronavirus affected countries, the US has gone up to 160,290 deaths, followed by Brazil with 96,096, Mexico 48,869, UK 46,299, India  39,820, Italy 35,171, France 30,296, Spain 28,498, Iran 17,617, Russia 14,351, Canada 8,958, Pakistan 5,999, Indonesia 5,388, Bangladesh 3,234, Saudi Arab 2,984 and Australia 247 respectively, worldometer reported.