Online Desk:
The overall number of global Covid cases is fast approaching 235 million amid the ongoing mass inoculation in different countries.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count and fatalities mounted to 234,577,843 and 4,796,489, respectively, on Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 43,658,910 cases to date and more than 700,959 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a number greater than the population of Boston. The last 100,000 deaths occurred during a time when vaccines — which overwhelmingly prevent deaths, hospitalizations and serious illness — were available to any American over the age of 12, reports AP.
The milestone is deeply frustrating to doctors, public health officials and the American public, who watched a pandemic that had been easing earlier in the summer take a dark turn. Tens of millions of Americans have refused to get vaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to tear through the country and send the death toll from 600,000 to 700,000 in 3 1/2 months.
Brazil which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, registered 21,459,117 cases. Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll has also risen to 597,723.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 33,791,061 on Saturday morning as 24,354 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, the health ministry’s data showed.
Besides this, 234 related deaths have taken place during the past 24 hours, which took the total death toll to 448,573.
