With the worsening Covid-19 situation, the global cases is nearing 147 million with more than 3.10 million fatalities.

According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count reached 146,830,782 while the death toll from the virus mounted to 3,106,384.

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The US has registered 32,077, 076 cases with 572,200 fatalities.
India has been experiencing a devastating Covid-19 situation with a recording of more than 300,000 cases every day.

India’s total tally reached 16,960,172 while the death toll from the virus climbed to 192,311.

The unfolding crisis is most visceral in India’s overwhelmed graveyards and crematoriums, and in heartbreaking images of gasping patients dying on their way to hospitals due to lack of oxygen, reports AP.

Burial grounds in the capital New Delhi are running out of space. Bright, glowing funeral pyres light up the night sky in other badly hit cities.

Brazil's Covid-19 death toll on Sunday reached 390,797 after registering another 1,305 fatalities, the country's ministry of health reported.

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According to the ministry, another 32,572 cases were registered, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 14,340,787.

Since the beginning of this year, the country has been facing a new wave of the virus, which has resulted in the collapse of a large part of its healthcare system.

Situation in Bangladesh

After a slight fall for several days, Bangladesh’s daily coronavirus death toll crossed the 100-mark again on Sunday with a sharp fall in new cases.

Fatalities climbed to 11,053 with 101 deaths in the past 24 hours until the morning. The virus also infected 2,922 people, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said in a handout.

The daily infection rate rose to 13.33 percent from Saturday’s 13.11 percent while the mortality rate remained static at 1.48 percent.

Bangladesh has so far confirmed 745,322 coronavirus cases.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8 last year and the first death on the 18th of that month.

Vaccination campaign

Bangladesh launched a vaccination drive on February 7 with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses it purchased from the Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd.

Bangladesh signed an agreement with Serum for 30 million doses. But a record number of cases in India has made the delivery of the vaccine doses uncertain.

The administering of the first dose will remain suspended from April 26, DGHS said today.
DGHS DG Prof ABM Khurshid Alam assured that Bangladesh will get 2.1 million doses of vaccine by the first week of May.

So far, 5,798,880 people have received the first dose and 2,155,296 have got their second jab, according to official figures.