Shawdesh Desk:

The coronavirus caseload across the globe topped 85 million on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

The total case count globally stood at 85,095,602 and the death toll climbed to 1,842,590 in the morning.

The US, which remained the world’s worst-hit country in terms of the number of cases and deaths, has crossed the grim milestone of 20 million cases on New Year’s Day.

The country’s total cases reached 20,630,543 with 3,51,453 fatalities on Sunday morning.

But there is a glimmer of hope as the seven-day rolling average of daily new cases fell from 219,345.9 on December 18 to 194,737.7 on January 1 and the seven-day rolling average of daily new deaths dipped slightly from 2,580 to 2,506 during the same period, reports AP.

A month after dismal month, Americans have been inundated by an ever-rising tide of devastating numbers. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Tens of millions unemployed.

By mid-December, five in every 100 Americans — more than 16 million — had been infected by COVID-19.

Those numbers testify to a historic tragedy.

But they don’t fully capture the multitude of ways, large and small, that the virus has upended and reconfigured everyday life in the U.S.

Secondly, India registered 10,323,965 caseload and 149,435 deaths, according to the latest update.

Brazil has so far recorded 196,018 deaths from COVID-19 with a total of 7,7,33,746 infections, the data said.

According to official statistics, deaths from COVID-19 in December increased 64.45 percent compared to November, rising from 13,263 to 21,811 in the country.