Online Desk :
The pandemic still continues to devastate many countries across the world. In fact, the global Covid-19 caseload has now topped 229 million.
The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 229,031,974 and 4,699,187, respectively, as of Tuesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 5,935,372,422 Covid vaccine doses have been administered across the globe.
The US has logged 42,286,531 cases and 676,059 deaths to date, according to the JHU data.
Brazil, which has the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload after the US and India, recorded 21,247,667 cases with 590,955 fatalities as of Tuesday.
India’s Covid-19 total tally rose to 33,448,163 on Sunday, as 30,773 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 309 deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 444,838.
The country, however, recorded a 15% drop in fresh Covid-19 cases in the week ending Sunday, the lowest weekly count in more than six months, with Kerala numbers declining by a steep 21%.
