Bangladesh reports 237 more deaths from coronaviurs

Bangladesh desk: Bangladesh on Wednesday reported 237 deaths and 10,420 cases from novel coronavirus in the span of 24 hours.

So far, the deadly virus claimed 23,398 lives and infected 13,86,742 people in the country.

In the last 24 hours, 708 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country collected 44,008 samples and tested 44,430.

With this, a total of 82,56,741 samples were tested in the country.

Health authorities also reported 13,313 more recoveries over the preceding 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 12,48,075, according to data released by the government.

Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus case on March 8 last year and the first death on March 18 the same year.

China reported first death from the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, on January 11 last year.