Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 509 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 509,518,136 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,217,886 Monday morning.
The US has recorded 80,984,914 cases so far and 991,254 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,057,545 on Sunday after 2,593 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
This is the fifth consecutive day when the number of daily new cases has surpassed the 2,000-mark, after lower tallies were reported in recent weeks.
Besides, 44 deaths due to the pandemic recorded since Saturday morning took the death toll to 522,193.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week, continuing a decline since the end of March.
The Geneva-based UN health agency said in a weekly report that nearly 5.59 million cases were reported between April 11 and 17, 24% fewer than in the previous week. The number of newly reported deaths dropped 21% to 18,215.
WHO said new cases declined in every region, though only by 2% in the Americas. The report was dated late Wednesday and sent to journalists on Thursday.
