With the world still grappling to contain the second wave of the pandemic, the global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 213 million.
The total caseload and fatalities stand at 213,098,413 and 4,450,408, respectively, as of Wednesday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 4,995,430,625 vaccine doses have been administered across the globe.
The US, which is the world’s worst-hit country in terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged 38,053,653 cases, according to JHU, while 630,663 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 20,614,866 cases with 575,742 fatalities so far, according to the health ministry.
The third worst-hit country, India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 32,474,773 on Tuesday, as 25,467 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry data.
Besides, 354 fatalities due to the pandemic since Monday morning took the total death toll to 435,110.
Situation in Bangladesh
Covid-related cases and fatalities in Bangladesh are seeing a downtrend as both the number of deaths and infections dropped in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, logging 114 deaths and 5,249 new cases.
The country last saw 112 coronavirus- related deaths on June 29 and the upswing in the fatalities reached its peak on August 5 and 10 when 264 deaths were recorded.
The fresh deaths pushed the country’s total fatalities to 25,513 while the cases reached 1,472,964, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh cases were detected after testing 34,708 samples in 24 hours, which reduced the daily case positivity rate to 15.12% from Monday’s 15.54%, said the DGHS.
The recovery rate rose to 93.81%, but the case fatality remained unchanged at 1.73% compared to the same period.
So far, the government has managed to vaccinate 6,976,317 people with two doses, and another 17,242,479 with the first dose, said DGHS.
Source: United News of Bangladesh