Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Jul-25,
The global
Covid-19 caseload is inching closer to the 194-million mark, as the second wave
of the pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world even amid
the mass inoculations efforts.
The total caseload and fatalities stand at
193,639,328 and 4,151,435, respectively, as of Sunday morning, according to
Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 3,815,101,425 vaccine doses have been
administered across the globe.
The US, which is the world's worst-hit country in
terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged 34,427,939 cases. Besides,
610,834 people have lost their lives in the US to date, as per the JHU data.
Brazil registered 1,108 more Covid-19 deaths in the
past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 549,448, the Ministry of
Health reported on Saturday.
Additionally, another 38,091 new cases were reported
in the same 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to 19,670,534.
Brazil currently has the world's second-highest the pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload
after the United States and India.
The third worst-hit country, India's COVID-19 tally
rose to 31,332,159 on Saturday as 39,097 new cases were registered during the
past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest
data.
Besides, 546 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday
morning took the death toll to 420,016.
Situation in Bangladesh
Although the country saw well below 200 fatalities
for three consecutive days as of Friday, it came close to the grim landmark
again as 195 people died of Covid-19 in 24 hours till Saturday morning.
Bangladesh recorded 6,780 new cases of infections
during the period after testing 20,827 samples.
With Covid's Delta variant spreading fast, the
country's fatalities had been hovering at nearly 200 for the last two weeks. It
reported the highest daily Covid-19 fatality number – 231 – on July 19 and
13,768 infections on the 12th of the month.
There have been 1,153,344 infections and 19,046
coronavirus deaths here since the pandemic started, according to a handout
issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Meanwhile, the daily test positivity rate increased
to 32.55 % from Friday's 31.05%, when the World Health Organization (WHO)
recommends a 5% or below rate.
The death rate increased to 1.65% after remaining
static at 1.64%for some days.
