The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 397 million, with the Omicron variant’s rapid spread across the globe.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 397,053,590 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,749,136 Tuesday morning.
The US has recorded 76,848,718 cases so far and 905,521 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
Russia is reporting a record daily count of new coronavirus infections, a tenfold spike from a month ago as the highly contagious Omicron variant spreads through the country, reports AP.
Russia has confirmed another highest daily of 180,071 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 12,982,023, the official monitoring and response centre said on Monday.
The nationwide death toll increased by 661 to 3,360 while the number of recoveries increased from 10,390,732 to 10,624,954
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India has registered 83,876 new cases in the past 24 hours, with the tally reaching 42,334,521, as per the health ministry's data released Monday.
The ministry also reported 897 deaths since Sunday morning, bringing the total fatalities to 504,078.
Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since last January, registered 63,324 Covid infections and 420 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its nationwide count to 26,605,137 and 632,720 respectively, the National Council of Health Secretaries said Saturday.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 38 more Covid-linked deaths with 9,369 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.
The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 21.07% from Sunday’s 21.50% after testing 44,471 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The number of deaths is the highest in nearly six months as the country last recorded 43 deaths on September 19 last year with 1,383 cases and the daily positivity rate at 5.62%.
On Sunday, Bangladesh reported 29 more Covid-linked deaths with 8,345 fresh cases.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,627 while the caseload mounted to 1,870,901.
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Of the 226 deaths recorded from January 31 to February 6, some 28.8% had received Covid vaccines while 71.2% did not, the DGHS mentioned.
Among the new deceased, 28 were men and 10 women.
Sixteen of the deaths were reported in Dhaka division while six in Chattogram, five each in Rajshahi and Khulna, three in Sylhet, two in Mymensingh, and one in Rangpur divisions.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate declined to 1.53%.
However, the recovery rate slightly increased to 86.16% with the recovery of 9,507 more patients during the 24-hour period.
In January, the country reported 322 Covid-linked deaths and 2,13,294 new cases while 19,112 recovered from the disease, according to the DGHS.
On January 28, Bangladesh logged its earlier highest daily positivity rate at 33.37% 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 this year’s 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.