Global Covid Cases Surpass 421 Million

With the Omicron variant’s rapid spread across the globe, the overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 421,348,262 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,872, 338 on Saturday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

The US has recorded 78,372,010 cases so far and 933,808 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 42,780,235 Friday, as 25,920 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry's latest data.

Besides, 492 deaths due to the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 510,905.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 28,072,238 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 643,340.

Situation in Bangladesh:

Bangladesh logged 24 more Covid-linked deaths with 2,584 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning amid a downtrend trend in new infections.

The daily positivity rate declined to 9.31% from Thursday’s 10.24% after testing 27,692 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,931 while the caseload mounted to 19,29,158.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained static at 1.50%.

However, the recovery rate slightly rose to 90.08% with the recovery of 9,988 more patients during the 24-hour period.

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 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.