Global Covid-19 cases cross 81 million: Johns Hopkins University
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More than 81 million people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus (Covid-19) in one year, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
The caseload reached 81,260,603 with 1,774,130 fatalities on Tuesday morning, reports UNB.
The US, which remained the worst-hit country in the world, has reported 19,300,726 cases.
Coronavirus is blamed for more than 330,000 deaths in the US. This has been the deadliest month of the outbreak in the US yet, with about 65,000 deaths in December so far, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The nation has repeatedly recorded more than 3,000 dead per day over the past few weeks, reports AP.
Besides, a huge US study of another COVID-19 vaccine candidate got underway Monday as states continue to roll out scarce supplies of the first shots to a nation anxiously awaiting relief from the catastrophic outbreak.
Public health experts say more options in addition to the two vaccines now being dispensed — one made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, the other by Moderna — are critical to amassing enough shots for the country and the world.
Brazil registered 20,548 new COVID-19 cases in the past day, taking the national count to 7,504,833, the country's health ministry said Monday.
The nationwide COVID-19 death toll rose to 191,570 after 431 more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, said the ministry.
India has registered 10,207,871 Covid-19 cases so far while the death toll from the virus reached 147,901 as of Tuesday.
Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Bangladesh recorded 23 deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until early Monday.
The fatality number rose to 7,479 since the first cases were reported in the country on March 8.
Also, 932 new cases were reported during the same period, taking the country’s total caseload to 510,080, said the Directorate General of Health Services.
So far, 3,184,527 tests have been carried out. The overall infection rate stood at 16.02 per cent and the death rate at 1.47 per cent.