Shawdesh Desk:

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 511 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 511,565,815 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,228,089 Thursday morning.

The US has recorded 81,189,379 cases so far and 992,722 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,065,496 on Wednesday, as 2,927 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry’s data shows.

This is the eighth consecutive day when the number of new cases breached the 2,000-mark, after lying low for the past several months.

Altogether 32 deaths have been reported across the country since Tuesday morning, taking the total death toll to 523,654.