Citizen Times Desk: Dhaka, Aug-01,
The overall number of global Covid cases is
fast approaching 198 million, as the world continues to battle against the
devastating second wave of the pandemic.
Although the situation
in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening as the Delta variant of
Covid-19 has now been detected in 124 territories worldwide, says the World
Health Organization (WHO).
According to the
US-based Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to
197,767, 859 while the death toll from the virus reached 4,215,888 on Sunday
morning.
So far, 4,078,901,841
vaccine doses have been administered across the world.
The US, which is the
world's worst-hit country in terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged
34,975,540 cases. Besides, 613,135 people have lost their lives in the US to
date, as per the JHU data.
Brazil registered 910
more Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to
556,370, the health ministry said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the total
caseload rose to 19,917,855 after 37,582 new cases were detected.
India's Covid-19 tally
rose to 31,613,993 on Saturday as 41,649 new cases were registered during the
past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest
data.
Besides, as many as 593
deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to
423,810.
Situation in Bangladesh
As health authorities
scramble to prevent the spread of the Delta variant, Bangladesh added 218
fatalities to its national tally on Saturday.
The country registered
over 200 single-day fatalities for the last six days as it is fighting a
horrific wave of the pandemic that overwhelmed its healthcare systems.
The country recorded
9,369 new cases on Saturday after testing 30,980 samples, and reported the
highest daily Covid-19 fatality number – 258 – on July 27 and 16,230 infections
the next day, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
There have been
1,249,484 positive cases and 20,685 coronavirus-related deaths here since the
pandemic began, the DGHS said.
Astrazeneca’s fresh
rollout
On a positive note,
Bangladesh will resume vaccination with Astrazeneca shots within the next few
days, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque.
“We’ll resume
vaccination with Astrazeneca jabs within the next 2-1 days. Those who failed to
take the second dose after getting the first one will be able to get it now,”
he said.
He said the government
has an overall stock of 2 crore 60 lakh vaccine doses now.
Foreign Minister Dr AK
Abdul Momen and Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday received the second
consignment of AstraZeneca vaccine doses from Japan under the COVAX facility.
The second consignment
contains 7,81,320 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
A cargo flight of
Cathay Pacific that carried the vaccine doses from Japan landed at the Hazrat
Shahjalal International Airport at 3:15 pm.
The third consignment
that will contain 6,16,780 doses of the vaccine is scheduled to arrive here on
August 3.
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