News Desk :
The global death toll from coronavirus has stood at 308,642 as of Saturday morning.
It has so far infected 4,628,228 people around the world, according to Worldometer.
Of the currently infected 2,561,554 patients, 2,516,549 are in mild condition, which is 98 percent, while 45,005 or 2 percent are in serious condition.
So far, 1,758,032 people have recovered from Covid-19.
The US is the hardest-hit country with the highest number of infections and deaths at 1,484,285 and 88,507 respectively.
Besides, Russia recorded its highest daily death toll yet from the coronavirus while new cases fell to the lowest level in two weeks.
Russia is in second place in the world to the United States with 272,043 cases, with 9,200 new cases announced Saturday, the lowest number since May 2.
But the number of deaths announced Saturday for the last 24 hours was the highest yet in Russia, at 119.
Critics have cast doubt on Russia’s low mortality rate, accusing authorities of under-reporting deaths in order to play down the scale of the crisis.
The total number of officially confirmed deaths is now 2,537, lower than a number of other countries with fewer cases.
Russian health officials say one of the reasons the count is lower is that only deaths directly caused by the virus are being included.
Authorities also say that since the virus came later to Russia, the country had more time to prepare hospital beds and launch wide-scale testing to slow its spread.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
The coronavirus is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and two international conveyances.
Bangladesh has so far reported 20,065 coronavirus cases, including record 1,202 on Friday, and 298 deaths from Covid-19.
