Shawdesh desk:

The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 374 million as Omicron infections keep rising in different parts of the globe.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 374,326,707 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,662,721 Monday morning.

The US has recorded 74,332,396 cases so far and 884,260 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

Russia’s daily count of new coronavirus infections surged to more than 121,000 on Sunday, an eightfold increase compared with the beginning of the month as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads through the country, reports AP.

The state coronavirus task force reported 121,288 new infections over the past 24 hours — an all-time high and 8,000 more than a day earlier. The country’s infection numbers have rocketed since early January, when only about 15,000 new cases per day were tallied.

The task force said 668 people died of COVID-19 in the past day, bring Russia’s total fatality count for the pandemic to 330,728, by far the largest in Europe.

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 41,092,522 on Sunday, as 234,281 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, as many as 893 deaths were recorded since Saturday morning, taking the death toll to 494,091.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since last January, registered 25,360,647 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 627,150.