Bangladesh's coronavirus cases have surpassed 200,000 and deaths reached 2,581, as the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 2,709 cases and 34 deaths on Saturday, the 133rd day of the outbreak in the country.
The new cases bring the country’s virus total to 202,066, the DGHS said while briefing the media live about the latest coronavirus situation in the country at 2:30pm.
It also confirmed 1,373 recoveries from the contagion in the 24 hours to 8:00am, taking the total recovery tally to 110,098.
The virtual briefing was also told that 10,923 tests were conducted during the last 24 hours under review, taking the total test count to 1,017,674.
Bangladesh first confirmed its coronavirus cases and death on March 08 and March 18 respectively, and since March 26 it enforced a 66-day shutdown in parallel with general holidays.
But that shutdown did little to slow the coronavirus spread as numbers of cases continued to increase.
Bangladesh has since June 05 become one of the 20 largest coronavirus outbreaks in the world, overtaking the then European hotspot of Belgium as the 20th worst affected country.
Globally, 14,205,416 people have caught coronavirus, 599,716 died and 8,480,497 recovered as of 2:42pm, with the US becoming the worst-hit country with 3,770,138 cases and 142,065 deaths, according to the worldometer.info.
