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Believe it or not, he overall number of cases is approaching 252 million.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 251,885,689 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,079,013, as of Friday morning.
The US has recorded 46,847,655 cases to date and more than 759,636 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.
In the US, winter is coming and diseases like Covid-19 often spread easier with people indoors and closer together. The worst surge in the nation happened last winter, before the vaccines were widely available, reports AP.
Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, registered 21,924,598 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 610,224.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 34,401,670 on Friday, as 13,091 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s data.
Besides, 340 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 462,189.
