Covid-19 Factoid: India's recovery rate still a shade behind world average

There has been a spike in daily new cases in Bangladesh, from under 2,000 per day in late May to over 3,000 on June 10

The total count of confirmed coronavirus cases globally stands at 7.34 million at present. There have been 414,130 deaths so far, while 3.6 million patients — almost half of all confirmed cases — have recovered. The US, Brazil, and Russia together have almost 45 per cent of all cases in the world.

In India, the number of confirmed cases has risen above 277,000, of which 133,632 cases are still active. While 135,205 people have been discharged, the death toll stands at 7,745. The country has added more than 8,000 new cases on each of the past nine days.

Here are some data