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Covid-19 crisis: Infection tally crosses 85 mln globally
The coronavirus caseload across the globe topped 85 million on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc: Global cases top 76.7 million
As the Coronavirus continues to wreak havoc worldwide, the total caseload reached 76,789,781 as of Monday morning and the death toll mounted to 1,692, 578, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
Global Covid-19 cases surpass 76.2 million
As the coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, a total of 76.2 million people have been infected globally and 1,684,816 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
Covid-19: Global cases pass 75 million
More than 75 million people have been infected with Covid-19. Over 1.64 million people have now died after contracting the virus since the first cases were reported in December last year.
Almost no place has been spared — and no one.
The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. More than any event in memory, the pandemic has been a global event. On every continent, households have felt its devastation — joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death. And an abiding, relentless fear.
Global Covid-19 cases hit 72.8 million
More than 72.8 million people have been infected with coronavirus globally and over 1.62 million of them died since the first cases were reported in December last year, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
Global coronavirus cases surpass 55 million
The worldwide Covid-19 caseload crossed 55 million on Friday, taking the tally to 56,898,415, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Besides, the death toll from Covid-19 shot up to 1,360,381.
The United States remains the worst-hit country with 11,715,316 confirmed cases so far, including 252,535 fatalities.
But with coronavirus cases surging and people preparing to gather for Thanksgiving, the situation is likely to worsen. The nation’s testing system remains unable to keep pace with the virus, reports AP.
The delays are happening as the country braces for winter weather, flu season and holiday travel, all of which are expected to amplify the US outbreak.
Meanwhile, since Feb 2 when Brazil reported its first case, the caseload has swelled to 5,945,849 with 167,455 deaths.
Mexico became the fourth country to register over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.
José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, announced late Thursday that Mexico had 100,104 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, behind only the United States, Brazil and India.
On Friday, India’s coronavirus cases since the pandemic began crossed 9 million.
The country’s new daily cases have seen a steady decline for weeks now and the total number of cases represents 0.6 percent of India’s 1.3 billion population.
The Indian Health Ministry reported 45,882 new infections and 584 fatalities in the past 24 hours on Friday. The death toll is more than 132,000.
Vaccine hope
A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine from American company Moderna Inc yielded extraordinarily strong early results last week.
Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective, according to preliminary data from an ongoing study. A week before that another US company Pfizer Inc announced its own vaccine looked 90 percent effective.
The University of Oxford expects to release data on the efficacy of its own candidate in the coming weeks, with the latest trial results published in The Lancet suggesting it produces a strong immune response in older adults.
Developed jointly with global pharma giant AstraZeneca, who have enlisted manufacturing partners in different parts of the world, the ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 vaccine is the one most likely to play a large role in any large or medium-scale vaccination effort in Bangladesh.
Global Covid-19 cases top 54 million
Over 54 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed around the world while the global death toll surged to 1,316,502 on Monday.
Global Covid-19 cases surpass 53 million
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 53 million globally, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University.
US records nearly half a million COVID-19 cases in a week
Nearly half a million people in the United States have contracted coronavirus in the last seven days, as the country recorded 66,784 new cases on Tuesday.