Global Covid cases near 212 million

Online Desk :

With the highly contagious Delta variant spreading rapidly across several countries, the global Covid-19 caseload is also fast approaching the grim milestone of 212 million.
The total caseload and fatalities stand at 211,800,166 and 4,430,770, respectively, as of Monday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 4,922,573,973 vaccine doses have been administered across the world.
The US, which is the world’s worst-hit country in terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged 37,709,810 cases, according to JHU, while 628,503 people have lost their lives to Covid to date.
Brazil currently has the world’s second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload after the United States and India.
The country has recorded 20,570,891 cases with 574,527 fatalities so far, according to the health ministry.
The third worst-hit country India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 32,424,234 on Sunday, as 30,948 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 403 Covid deaths since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 434,367.