Global COVID-19 cases top 354 million
The overall number of Covid cases
has surpassed 354 million amid the rise in Omicron infections across the globe.
According to Johns Hopkins
University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 354,310,228 while the death
toll from the virus reached 5,603,714 Tuesday morning.
The US has recorded 71,645,863 cases
so far and 868,420 people have died from the virus in the country, the
university data shows.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to
39,543,328 Monday, as 306,064 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the
country, as per the federal health ministry's data.
Monday was the fifth consecutive day
when over 300,000 new cases were registered in a day in the country in over
eight months.
Besides, as many as 474 deaths were
recorded since Saturday morning, taking the death toll to 489,896.
Meanwhile, the country's Omicron
tally reached 10,050 Monday. Most of the Omicron cases have been reported from
the states of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Brazil, which has been experiencing
a new wave of cases since last January, registered 24,134,946 cases as of
Tuesday, while its Covid death toll rose to 623,412.
Covid situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 15 more
Covid-linked deaths with 14,828 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning.
The daily positivity rate rose to
32.37 percent from Sunday’s 31.29 percent after testing 45,807
samples, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country logged its peak daily
positivity rate of 32.55 percent on July 24 last year, reporting 6,780 cases
and 195 deaths.
Bangladesh last saw 15,776 cases on
August 3 last year with 235 deaths.
The fresh numbers took the country’s total
fatalities to 28,238 while the caseload mounted to 1,699,964 Monday.
Of the 79 deaths recorded from
January 17 to January 23, some 35.4 percent received Covid vaccines while 64.6
percent did not, the DGHS mentioned.
Among the new deceased, nine were
men and six women.
Six cases were reported in Dhaka
division while three in Mymensingh, two in Sylhet and one each in Chattogram,
Rajshahi Khulna, and Barishal divisions.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate
further declined to 1.66 percent.
However, the recovery rate also
declined further to 91.64 percent with the recovery of 998 more patients during
the 24-hour period.
Bangladesh’s total
tally of Omicron cases reached 69 with the detection of five more cases till
Sunday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
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 this year’s 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.
Bangladesh reported the highest
number of daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 last year, while the highest
daily caseload was 16,230 on July 28 last year.