Global Covid cases surpass 434 million

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.