UK coronavirus death toll exceeds 15,000
The UK's hospital death toll from COVID-19 rose by 888 to 15,464 as of 16:00 GMT on April 17, the health ministry said.
"357,023 people have been tested, of which 114,217 tested positive," the health ministry added.
Dutch infections reach 31,589, 142 new deaths: Authorities
Confirmed coronavirus infections in the Netherlands have risen by 1,140 to 31,589, Dutch health authorities have said.
The death toll among people known to have been infected with the novel coronavirus increased by 142 to 3,601, the Dutch Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said in its daily update.
Swiss death toll reaches 1,111, confirmed infections hit 27,404
The Swiss death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 1,111 people, the country's public health agency said, rising from 1,059 a day earlier.
The number of people showing positive tests for the disease increased to 27,404, the agency said, up from 27,078.
Violating lockdown, over a hundred thousand gather at a Bangladesh funeral
Over a hundred thousand people gathered at the funeral of a renowned Bangladeshi Islamic preacher on Saturday, breaking the lockdown that the government of the South Asian nation imposed to avert the threat of coronavirus pandemic.
The funeral of Maulana Zubayer Ahmed Ansari took place at Sarail Upazila of Brahmanbaria district, some 100 kilometres away from the capital Dhaka. Ansari, a leader of the Islamic political party Khelafat Majlish, died on Friday evening. He was 59.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, officer-in-charge of Sorail police station Shahadat Hossain Titu said: "We couldn't control the crowd. Over one lakh [hundred thousand] people gathered at premise of Jamia Rahmania Madrasa established by the late Maulana Ansari."
"The funeral crowd extended up to nearby Dhaka-Sylhet highway," said Titu, "Even people from capital Dhaka came to attend the funeral."
Like other parts of Bangladesh, the district of Brahmanbaria also went into lockdown since March 26 up until April 25. On last Thursday, the Bangladesh government declared the entire country at risk of the coronavirus pandemic.
As of Saturday, Bangladesh has 2,144 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 84 deaths. Mahbub Kabir Milon, a secretary with Bangladesh government called the gathering "devastating".
