UNB, Dhaka :
The second wave of the pandemic continues to take a heavy toll on human lives around the world. In fact, the global fatality figure has now topped four million.
The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 185,018,936 and 4,000,641, respectively, as of Thursday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 3,322,028,826 Covid vaccine doses have been administered across the globe, as per the university data.
The US has logged 33,769, 829 cases and 606,215 deaths to date, according to the university data. The death toll in the United States is the highest in the world.
Brazil registered 1,648 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 528,540, the health ministry said Wednesday.
A total of 54,022 new infections were detected during the period, raising the total caseload to 18,909,037, the ministry said.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 30,663,665 on Wednesday as 43,733 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, according to the federal health ministry.
Besides, 930 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning pushed up the total death toll to 404,211.
Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019, but the outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first two-three months of 2020.
It was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020.
