Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases is approaching 600 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 599,700,821 and the death toll reached 6,469,464 on Saturday morning.
The US has recorded 95,324,830 cases so far and 1,065,515 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.
India’s daily Covid-19 caseload increased to 15,754 during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,314,618 in the country, the federal health ministry said on Friday.
With the fresh cases, India’s active caseload currently stands at 101,830.
The country also logged 47 related deaths during the past 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 527,253, the ministry said.
New coronavirus cases reported globally dropped nearly a quarter in the last week while deaths fell 6% but were still higher in parts of Asia, according to a report Thursday on the pandemic by the World Health Organization.
The UN health agency said there were 5.4 million new Covid-19 cases reported last week, a decline of 24% from the previous week. Infections fell everywhere in the world, including by nearly 40% in Africa and Europe and by a third in the Middle East.
Covid deaths rose in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia by 31% and 12% respectively, but fell or remained stable everywhere else.
At a press briefing Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said reported coronavirus deaths over the past month have surged 35%, and noted there had been 15,000 deaths in the past week.
