Bangladesh on Wednesday reported 33 more deaths and saw a detection of 2,654 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

With these new figures, the total number of deaths and infections reach 3,267 and 246,674 respectively.

Health authorities reported that another 1,890 people have recovered from the disease in a day, taking the total number of recoveries to 141,750.

“We’ve identified 2,654 new cases in the last 24 hours after testing 11,160 samples,” Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), told a regular online briefing.

So far, 12,12,416 samples have been tested.

Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.

Global death toll 700,000

Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic in March.

The global Covid-19 deaths surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The confirmed cases were at 18,540,119 in the morning.

The US has the highest number of cases (4,771,080) and deaths (156,801).

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has predicted that the effects of coronavirus will be felt for decades to come and urged everyone to learn to live the virus.

On Monday, he said a number of vaccines are now in phase 3 clinical trials but noted that there is no silver bullet at the moment, and there might never be.