The overall number of Covid cases is fast approaching 250 million amid the global race to vaccinate masses against the infectious disease.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 249, 502,872 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,043,945 as of Sunday morning.

The US has recorded 46,461,564 cases to date and more than 754,278 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.

Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, have registered 21,874,324 cases so far, while its Covid death toll rose to 609,388.

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 34,344,683 on Saturday, as 10,929 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, the federal health ministry's latest data showed.

Besides, as many as 392 deaths due to the pandemic have been reported since Friday morning, taking the total death toll to 460,265.

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Situation in Bangladesh 

Bangladesh logged just a single Covid-related death in 24 hours till Saturday morning, the lowest in nearly 18 months. 

During the period, the country also registered 154 fresh cases, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh reported its first death from Covid-19 on March 18, 2020.

The person who died during the period was a man.

The fresh numbers took the total fatality to 27,891 while the country’s caseload mounted to 1,570,835.

Meanwhile, the daily-case positivity rate slightly increased to 1.18 per cent from Friday’s 1.12 per cent.

However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78 per cent.

The fresh cases were detected after testing 13, 072 samples, said the DGHS.

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Also, the recovery rate remained unchanged at 97.70 per cent with the recovery of 157 more patients during the period.

So far, 30,521, 391people have fully been vaccinated in the country while 43,356,273 received the first dose as of Friday, according to the DGHS.

Meanwhile, the campaign to vaccinate the school students of the 12-17 age group began in Dhaka on Monday.

The vaccination campaign will be conducted at eight centres in the capital although it was scheduled to begin at 12 centres in the city. Other centres did not get approval due to lack of adequate facilities.