Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 516 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 516,137,649 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,247,392 Friday morning.
The US has recorded 81,692,541 cases so far and 996,946 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,107,806 on Friday, as 19688 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s data.
So far, 5,24,002 people have died of the virus in India.
