Citizen Times Desk:
Dhaka, Aug-12,
The overall number of
global Covid cases is fast approaching the 205-million mark as several
countries continue their battle against the deadlier Delta variant of
coronavirus even with mass inoculations underway.
According to US-based
Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 204,626,055
while the death toll from the virus reached 4,322,964 on Thursday morning.
So far, 4,527,785,425
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
36,177,914 cases. Besides, 618,434 people have lost their lives in the US to
date, as per the JHU data.
Brazil, which has the
world's second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States, and the
third-largest caseload after the United States and India, recorded 565,748
deaths and 20,245,085 cases, respectively, on Wednesday.
Neighbouring India's
total Covid cases surpassed 32 million on Wednesday, with 38,353 new infections
reported in 24 hours across the country, as per the federal health ministry's
data.
Besides, 497 deaths
were recorded since Tuesday morning, taking the death toll to 429,179.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Wednesday
reported 237 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours, a figure that shows how bad the
situation is in the country.
On August 5, the
country reported 264 deaths shattering its previous single-day record of 258
Covid-related fatalities on July 27. On August 10 too, the country logged 268
deaths.
Besides, 10,420 more
people came out Covid positive during the period after testing 44,430 samples,
according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Chaos at vaccination
centres
Vaccination centres
across the country drew huge crowds on the fifth day of the mass vaccination
drive, creating a chaotic situation everywhere and raising the risk of the
virus transmission.
Hundreds of
jab-seekers, both male and female, turned up at small vaccination centres with
or without online registrations, overwhelming its medical staff.
On Saturday, Bangladesh
kicked off another phase of its mass vaccination drive aimed at vaccinating 35
lakh people in six days.
Covid jabs will be
administered simultaneously in 4,600 unions, 1,054 municipality areas and 433
wards of the city corporations, Director General of Health Services Dr ABM
Khurshid Alam told the media on August 6.
Vaccine Stock
Finance Minister AHM
Mustafa Kamal, at a virtual meeting on Wednesday, said, “We’ve to vaccinate
some 13.82 crore people of the country. We need to buy a total of 27.65 crore
vaccine doses. We have 2.55 crore vaccine doses in our hands and the remaining
ones need to be collected.”
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