প্রকাশ: 17/03/2022
The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 463
million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case
count mounted to 463,663,236 while the death toll from the virus reached
6,057,996 Thursday morning.
The US has recorded 79,631,708 cases so far and 968,329
people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 42,998,938 on Wednesday, as
2,876 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the
federal health ministry data.
Besides, as many as 98 deaths due to the pandemic since
Tuesday morning took the total death toll to 516,072.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of
cases since January last year, registered 29,488,777 cases as of Wednesday,
while its Covid death toll rose to 656,231.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number
of new coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 17% in the last week while
Covid-19 infections rose, reversing a decline in cases that first began in
January.
In the UN health agency’s weekly report on the pandemic
issued late Tuesday, WHO said there were more than 11 million new Covid-19
infections last week -- about an 8% rise -- and 43,000 new deaths. The number
of Covid deaths globally has been dropping for the past three weeks.
The biggest increase in cases were seen in the Western
Pacific and Africa, where infections rose by 29% and 12%, respectively.
Elsewhere, cases dropped by more than 20% in the Middle East, Southeast Asia
and the Americas. In Europe, cases inched up by about 2%.
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