Shawdesh desk;

The overall number of Covid cases is now rapidly approaching 433 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the globe.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 432,816, 460 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,936, 878 Saturday morning.

The US has recorded 78,883,101 cases so far and 947, 417 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,894,345 on Friday as 13,166 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, as many as 302 deaths from the pandemic reported since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 513,226.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 28,679,671 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 648,496.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh logged 11 more Covid-linked deaths with 1,406 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning.

The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 5.48% from Thursday’s 5.53% after testing 25,702 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

On Thursday, Bangladesh reported 10  Covid-linked deaths with 1,516 fresh cases.

The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,016 and the caseload to 19,41,057.

Among the new deceased, five were men and six were women.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate slightly declined to 1.49%.

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.