Gravestones from a cemetery are seen with the Manhattan skyline in the background on April 07, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York AFPThey lived in BrooklynA Bangladeshi expatriate and his son died of Covid-19 in New York on Saturday where the deadly virus has already claimed over 36,000 lives. With these, a total of seven Bangladeshis died in New York in a week and all of them hailed from Chittagong. The US has recorded 17,649, 057 cases with 316,144 deaths, the highest figures in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University. The United States reached a record of nearly a quarter million coronavirus cases reported in 24 hours. A total of 76.2 million people has been infected globally and 1,684,816 have died, according to the JHU.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 20, 2020 06:02 UTC