Online Desk :
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 465 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 465,700,653 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,064,926 Friday morning.
The US has recorded 79,684,882 cases so far and 970,005 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,004,005 on Thursday, as 2,528 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry data.
Besides, as many as 150 deaths due to the pandemic since Wednesday morning took the total death toll to 516,312.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,527,640 cases as of Thursday, while its Covid death toll rose to 656,487.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of new coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 17% in the last week while Covid-19 infections rose, reversing a decline in cases that first began in January.
In the UN health agency’s weekly report on the pandemic issued late Tuesday, WHO said there were more than 11 million new Covid-19 infections last week — about an 8% rise — and 43,000 new deaths. The number of Covid deaths globally has been dropping for the past three weeks.
The biggest increase in cases were seen in the Western Pacific and Africa, where infections rose by 29% and 12%, respectively. Elsewhere, cases dropped by more than 20% in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas. In Europe, cases inched up by about 2%.
