The death toll climbed to 7,479 after 27 fatalities were registered until 8 am Monday, according to data released by the government. As many as 12,617 samples were tested at 167 authorised labs across the country in the last 24 hours, yielding a positivity rate of 7.39 percent. The latest official figures put the recovery rate at 88.87 percent while the mortality rate stands at 1.47 percent. Globally, over 80.83 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and 1.76 million have died, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.

Source: bd News24 December 28, 2020 10:29 UTC