Global Covid cases surpass 178.4 million

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As Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world the caseload has crossed 1758.4 million.

The total caseload and fatalities stand at 178,424, 674 and 3,864,442 respectively as of Monday morning. The latest figures have been released by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

So far, 2,600, 035,128 vaccine doses have been administered across the globe.

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The US, which is the world’s worst-hit country in terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged 33,541,889 cases, according to JHU.

Besides, 601,826 people have lost their lives in the US to date.

Brazil is experiencing a new wave of infections in hospitals as the country has registered 1,025 more deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 501,825, the health ministry said Sunday.

A total of 44,178 new infections were detected, raising the total caseload to 17,927,928, the ministry said.

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.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 29,881,772 on Monday with 386,708 fatalities.

Situation in Bangladesh

As the Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh has taken a turn for the worse again, 82 more people died of coronavirus in 24 hours until Sunday morning.

This is the highest daily death toll in the last 52 days as the country logged 88 deaths on April 29 this year.

During the period, 3,641 more Covid cases were detected after the test of 22,231 samples, said a handout issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

With the new numbers, the country’s caseload now stood at 851,668 while the death toll at 13,548, said the DGHS handout.

Bangladesh is now administering the 1st doses of Sinopharm vaccine and the second dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.It will start administering Pfizer vaccine Monday.

So far 3,720 people received the first dose of China’s Sinopharm vaccine, including 764 in the past 24 hours.

Of the Astrazeneca vaccine, 4,270,322 people received the second shot and 5,820,015 the first one so far.

Source: United News of Bangladesh