IEDCR confirms five more deaths, 41 new cases

The numbers of coronavirus deaths and infections kept rising in Bangladesh with five new deaths and 41 new infections confirmed in the past 24 hours until 2:00pm on Tuesday.

Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Meerjady Sabrina, said this at a regular online briefing in the afternoon.

This has been the highest number of deaths since 18 March when Bangladesh recorded its first death from coronavirus. So far, the COVID-19 has claimed 17 lives and infected 164 people across the country.

IEDCR director also said among the deaths, two were above 60 years old while two others over 50 and one was aged more than 40 years.

Twenty of those who have newly been infected are from Dhaka while 15 others from Narayanganj, she said adding that one of them is 10-year-old, 10 are aged between 21 and 30 years and seven above 50.

Of the infected, 28 are men while 13 women, according to the IEDCR director.

The global death toll from coronavirus reached 74,697 on Tuesday morning.

There have been 1,346,566 confirmed cases around the world after the highly contagious disease was first reported in China in December last year, according to the Worldometer.

Of those infected, 993,174 are currently being treated with 47,256 in serious or critical condition. So far, 353,392 people have recovered.

Following the virus outbreak across the globe, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on 11 March.