No one died from coronavirus and 102 contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities are 29,118 and infections rose 19,51,174.  The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Friday.

As many as 9,832 samples were collected and 9,932 ones tested in the past day. During the period, 1,268 more patients recovered from the illness, taking the total recoveries to 18,76,148. Bangladesh, however, first reported its coronavirus cases on March 8, 2020.

The virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 and then it spread to other countries. To date, the epidemic infected 478,335,289 people and killed 6,134,563 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 virus reached 413,192,968 across the world.