Online Desk : Seven more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 27,758.

During the period, 469 more people contracted the virus, raising the total infection to 15,66,296, the health directorate said in a press release on Tuesday.

Bangladesh first reported its COVID-19 cases on March 8 last year. Since then the country has been struggling to limit the spread of the highly contagious virus.

Coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year and then spread to newer countries and territories.

To date, the epidemic infected 241,982,183 people and killed 4,922,902 across the globe, according to Worldometer, a website that compiles the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it.

However, the total number of people who recovered from the coronavirus pandemic reached 219,302,826 across the world.