Shawdesh Desk:

The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 206 million, with the world still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic.

The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 206,166,805 and 4,344,715, respectively, as of Saturday morning, as per the latest data released by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

On the other hand, as many as 4,610,658,306 vaccine doses have been administered across the world.

The US has logged 36,592,342 cases and 621,005 fatalities to date, the highest death toll in the world, according to the university.

Brazil has registered 966 more Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 567,862, the health ministry said on Friday.

The ministry said that the total caseload rose to 20,319,000 after 33,933 new cases were detected.

India has been experiencing a fall in daily Covid-19 deaths for the past couple of weeks.

The country’s Covid-19 tally surpassed 32,117,826 with 40,120 new cases reported in the past 24 hours, said the federal health ministry on Friday.

Besides, as many as 585 deaths were reported on Friday that took the overall fatality toll to 430,254.