Shawdesh Desk:

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 455 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 455,021,350 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,035,871 Saturday morning.

The US has recorded 79,507,030 cases so far and 967,164 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,984,261 on Friday, as 4,194 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, as many as 255 deaths due to the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to 515,714.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,313,228 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 654,843.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh logged five more Covid-linked deaths with 257 fresh cases in 24 hours till Friday morning amid a continuous downtrend in the positivity rate.

The daily positivity rate slightly declined to 1.86 per cent from Thursday’s 1.91 per cent after testing 13,860 samples during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The latest numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 29,105 and the caseload to 19,49,055.