Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 445 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 445,005,937 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,994,717 Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 79,265,726 cases so far and 958,437 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,957,477 on Saturday, as 5,921 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, 289 deaths from the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 514,878.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,040,800 cases as of Saturday, while its Covid death toll rose to 652,216.
