Global Covid cases top 467 million

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 467 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 467,671,421 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,070,281 Saturday morning.

The US has recorded 79,717,219 cases so far and 970,804 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,004,005 on Friday as 2,528 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry's latest data.

Besides, 149 deaths due to the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 516,281.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,584,800 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 657,098.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh reported two more Covid-linked deaths, with 106 fresh cases, in 24 hours till Friday morning after witnessing zero death from Covid in the last three days.

On Tuesday, the country logged zero Covid-related death after more than three months.

The country reported its 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.

Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate declined to 1.16 per cent from Thursday’s 1.69 per cent after 9,322 samples were tested during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The latest numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,114 and the caseload to 19,50,465.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent.

The recovery rate rose to 95.80 per cent with the recovery of 1,459 more patients during the 24-hour period.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

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.