Online Desk :
The overall number of global Covid cases is fast approaching 232 million amid spread of Delta variant.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 231,517,674 with 4,742,776 fatalities as of Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 42, 940, 233 cases to date and more than 687,746 people have died so far from the virus in the country, said university data.
Brazil which has been experiencing new wave of cases since January, registered 21,343,304 cases. Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll has also risen to 594,200.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 33,624,419 on Saturday as 29,616 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 290 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the death toll to 446,658.
