Online Desk :
Amid a global scare over the new strain of Covid-19, the overall number of coronavirus cases has surged past 273 million.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 273,668,314 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,343,939 Saturday morning.
The US has recorded 50,701,324 cases to date and more than 805,796 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.
Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, registered 22,204,941 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 617,395.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 34,726,049 on Friday, as 7,447 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry’s data.
Besides, 391 deaths from the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 476,869.
Ten new cases of the Omicron variant were logged in India’s capital Friday, taking the country’s case tally of the new variant to 98.
