Covid-19 continues its onslaught across the world even with mass inoculations underway. In fact, the global corona caseload is fast nearing the 179-million mark.
The total caseload and fatalities stand at 178,730,551 and 3,871,409, respectively, as of Tuesday morning. The latest figures have been released by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 2,647, 610,113 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 33,554,246 cases, according to JHU.
Besides, 602,089 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 899 more deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 502,817, the health ministry said Monday.
A total of 41,878 new infections were detected during the period, raising the total caseload to 17,969,806, 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, the third worst-hit country in the world in terms of fatalities, has so far recorded 29,977,861 Covid cases with 389,302 fatalities.
Situation in Bangladesh
The Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh is worsening by the day, as 78 more people died in 24 hours till Monday morning.
The country’s positivity rate hit 19.27% during the period, the highest recorded in two months.
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).
Besides, 4,636 new cases were detected after the tests of 24,057 samples, as per the DGHS handout.
With the new numbers, the death toll in Bangladesh reached 13,626 on Monday while the caseload rose to 856,304.
Bangladesh is now administering the 1st doses of Sinopharm and Pfizer BioNTech vaccines and also the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. On the first day, 240 people received the first jab of Pfizer vaccine.
As of now, 5,225 people have received the first dose of China’s Sinopharm vaccine, including 1,505 in the past 24 hours.
Of the Astrazeneca vaccine doses, 4,273,325 have received the second shot and 5,820,015 the first one so far.
