Online Desk:
The overall number of global Covid cases has now surged past 239 million, despite the ongoing mass inoculations in many countries.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total Covid case count and fatalities stand at 239, 121, 766 and 4,873,471 respectively as of Thursday morning.
The US has recorded 44,681,561 cases and 719,515 fatalities to date, according to the university data.
Brazil currently has the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload after the United States and India.
Brazil has registered 21,597, 949 cases so far. The country’s Covid death toll has also risen to 601,574 as it has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 34,001,743 on Wednesday, as 15,823 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 226 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death toll to 451,189.
