Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 498 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 498,154,313 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,176,420 Monday morning.
The US has recorded 80,399,474 cases so far and 985,482 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,034,217 on Sunday with 1,054 new cases registered during the past 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, 29 deaths due to the pandemic reported since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 521,685.
