Global Covid -19 cases approaching 184 million

The global corona caseload is fast approaching 184-million mark as the virus continues to spread across the world amid mass inoculations.

The total caseload and fatalities now stand at 183,404,186 and 3,969,635 respectively as of Sunday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

As of now, 3,161,952,595 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 33,713,729 cases, according to JHU.

Besides, 605,493 people have lost their lives in the US up to now.

Brazil has the world’s second highest Covid-19 death toll after the United States, and the third largest caseload following the United States and India.

The South American country has recorded 523,587 deaths while the total caseload counted 18,725,042 as of Sunday morning.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 30,502,362 on Saturday as 44,111 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, India’s federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, 738 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the death toll to 401,050.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is currently seeing the most alarming spike since confirming its first cases in March last year, as over 100 deaths were reported at a stretch for a week until Saturday.

As of Saturday morning, 134 more people died of the virus in 24 hours till Saturday morning while 6,124 new cases were reported, according to a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The number of daily deaths remained above 100 after logging 119 deaths on June 27, and the country also saw the highest 143 deaths on Thursday.

With the new numbers, the country’s death toll now stands at 14,912 while the caseload at 936,256.

Bangladesh has received 2.5 million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine under the COVAX facility and 2 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine (commercially purchased from China) on Friday night and Saturday morning.

Source: United News of Bangladesh

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