The death toll from coronavirus is nearing 7,000 in Bangladesh after the health authorities announced 19 more virus-related casualties over latest 24 hours till Friday.
Of the new deceased, 13 are men and six are women. Among the total dead, 5,339 or 76.42 percent are men while 1,647 or 23.58 percent are women.
Besides, 1,884 new infections from the virus, officially known as Sars-CoV-2 responsible for Covid-19, were recovered during the period to push the total cases to 487,849.
Coronavirus Update in Bangladesh
(Update on December 02, 2020)
| Status | New | Total |
| Cases | 1,884 | 487,849 |
| Death | 19 | 6,986 |
| Recovered | 3,866 | 414,318 |
| Test | 16,323 | 2,944,252 |
Currently, there are 66,545 active cases in the country.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed the information through a press release in the afternoon.
As per the press release, 3,866 people recovered from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours to take the total recoveries in the country to 414,318.
The recovery rate from the coronavirus improved further reaching 84.93 percent.
Besides, the positivity rate — an indicator of the prevalence of the disease — was recorded at 11.54 percent in the last hours while the overall positivity rate is 16.57 percent.
Bangladesh has one of the lowest case fatality rates or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, at 1.43 percent.
During the period, 16,323 samples were tested in 140 labs across the country. With this, a total of 2,944,252 samples have so far been tested in the country.
On Thursday, the country registered 37 deaths and 1,861 infections from coronavirus after testing 16,265 samples with a positivity rate of 11.44 percent.
Meanwhile, the total coronavirus caseload has exceeded 7 crore reaching 70,720,306 around the world as of Friday morning.
Besides, the virus has so far killed 1,588,437 people globally, according to data collated by tracking website Worldometer.
Of the currently infected 19,983,546 patients, 19,876,874 are in mild condition while 106,672 are in serious or critical condition.
So far, 49,148,323 people have made recovery from the disease in different countries.
The US is the worst-hit country with highest cases and deaths in the world at 16,039,393 and 299,692 respectively while India has 2nd highest cases of 9,796,992 and third highest fatalities of 142,222 and Brazil has 2nd highest deaths of 179,801 and third highest cases of 6,783,5438.