Bangladesh confirms four more COVID-19 deaths, 139 new cases

The death toll from the coronavirus disease rose to 34 in Bangladesh as four more people lost their lives in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the total number of confirmed cases surged to 621 after 139 more people tested positive on Sunday, according to the data released by the health directorate.

This is the biggest spike in daily new cases of the novel coronavirus in Bangladesh since the IEDCR reported first cases on March 8.

Some 1340 samples were tested from across the country during the period under review, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora disclosed the information in a daily health bulletin this afternoon.

In the past 24 hours, three new patients -- two male and one female -- made recovery, raising the tally of recovered patients to 39.

Earlier on Saturday, three people died and 58 tested positive for the virus in the country.

COVID-19, first reported in China, has so far infected 1,783,724 people globally and killed 108,907 of them, according to Worldometer.

As the virus began sweeping across the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.