Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases is now rapidly approaching 457 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 456,908,767 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,041,077 Monday morning.
The US has recorded 79,517,492 cases so far and 967,552 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 42,990,991 on Sunday as 3,116 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, 47 deaths from the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 515,850.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,361,024 cases as of Monday, while its Covid death toll rose to 655,234.
