Online Desk :
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed another grim mark of 223 million, with the world still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic.
Now the total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 223,100,992 and 4,604, 426 respectively, as of Friday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 5,597,039,397 Covid vaccine doses have been administered across the globe.
The US has logged 40,600,763 cases and 654,576 deaths to date, according to the JHU data.
Brazil currently has the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload after the United States and India.
The country has recorded 20,958,899 cases with 585,205 fatalities so far, according to its health ministry.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 33,163,004 on Thursday, as 43,406 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, according to the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 339 new deaths due to the pandemic since Wednesday morning took the total death toll to 442,046.
