The overall number of global Covid cases is fast nearing 214 million, 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 214,840,644 and the death toll to 4,462,916 on Thursday morning.
So far, 5,035,870,728 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 38,221,908 cases. Besides, 632,262 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 US and India, recorded 576,645 deaths and 20,645,537cases, respectively, Wednesday.
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Neighbouring India's total Covid cases surpassed 32.5 million on Wednesday. The country’s total death toll reached 435,758.
According to the World Health Organization, Covid-19 in India may be entering an endemic stage with a low or moderate level of transmission going on.
The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It is very different to the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population, reports Xinhua.
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Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 114 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours until Wednesday morning amid a steady decline in both cases and positivity rate raising hope for further improvement.
This was for the second consecutive day that the number of fatalities stood at 114, the lowest in the past two months.
The number of fresh Covid cases is also seeing a downtrend as 4,966 people tested positive during this time compared to 5,249 the previous day.
The fresh numbers have pushed the country’s total fatalities to 25,627 and the cases reached 1,477,930, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The country last saw 112 coronavirus- related deaths on June 29, and the fatalities jumped to 264 on August 5 and 10 when the country was under a strict lockdown.
The latest cases were detected after testing 33,640 samples in 24 hours, which reduced the daily case positivity rate to 14.76 % from Tuesday’s 15.12% and Monday’s 15.54 %, according to the DGHS.
The recovery rate rose to 94.02%, but the case fatality remained unchanged at 1.73% compared to the same period.
The government will start administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines under its mass inoculation campaign on September 7, according to the head of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
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Bangladesh on August 7 kicked off its mass vaccination drive aimed at inoculating as many adults as possible in a short period of time.