Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 427 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the globe.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 427,358,056 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,904,723 Wednesday morning.
The US has recorded 78,642,385 cases so far and 938,938 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,851,929 Tuesday, as 13,405 new cases registered in 24 hours across the South Asian country, as per the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, 235 more deaths since Monday morning took the death toll to 512,344.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 28,353,689 cases as of Wednesday, while its Covid death toll rose to 645,665.
