Global Covid Cases Top 504 Million

The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 504 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 504,566,515 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,198,219 Monday morning.

The US has recorded 80,632,301 cases so far and 988,618 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 43,042,097 on Sunday as 1,150 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.

Besides, four deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the death toll to 521,751.

Meanwhile, the Chinese mainland Sunday reported 2,723 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 2,417 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's Monday report.

Apart from Shanghai, 15 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new local COVID-19 cases, including 166 in the northeastern province of Jilin.

Shanghai also reported 19,831 locally-transmitted asymptomatic infections of the novel coronavirus during this period, out of a total of 20,639 local asymptomatic carriers newly identified on the mainland.

Three new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Sunday in Shanghai, according to the report.