The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 434 million as Omicron infections keep rising across in different parts of the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 434,199, 114 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,943,734 Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 78,931,739 cases so far and 948, 215 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 42,905,844 on Saturday as 11,499 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, 255 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 513,481.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 28,749,552 cases as of Saturday, while its Covid death toll rose to 649,149.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 8 more Covid-linked deaths with 759 fresh cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning as the positivity rate kept declining.
The country saw below 1,000 daily cases after more than a month as the country last logged 892 cases with three deaths on January 5 this year.
The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 4.15 per cent from Friday’s 5.48 per cent after testing 18,305 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
On Friday, Bangladesh reported 11 Covid-linked deaths with 1,406 fresh cases.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,024 while the caseload to 19,41,816.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.
On December 9 last year, Bangladesh again logged zero Covid-related death after nearly three weeks as the pandemic was apparently showing signs of easing.
The country reported first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year along with 178 infections since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.
Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.
Source: United News of Bangladesh