Shawdesh Desk:

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 512 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 512,225,941 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,230,957 on Friday morning.

The US has recorded 81,249,259 cases so far and 993,156 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,072,486 on Thursday as 3687 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry’s data shows.

The number of new cases breached the 3,000-mark, after lying low for the past several months.

Altogether 39 deaths have been reported across the country since Tuesday morning, taking the total death toll to 523,693.