Believe it or not, the global tally of COVID-19 cases is inching closer to 88 million.

The government has decided to promote all students from grade I to grade V without traditional year final examinations amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The globally confirmed coronavirus cases reached 58,095,887 on Sunday with 1,379,83 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).   The US remains the worst-hit country with 12,088,409 cases, including 255,833 fatalities as of Sunday.   Brazil registered 376 new deaths from Covid-19, bringing the national death toll to 168,989, the government said Saturday. The number of infections went up by 32,622, pushing the nationwide tally to 6,052,786.   Neighbouring India's coronavirus tally reached 9,095,806 on Sunday as 45,209 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.   The country’s death toll mounted to 133,227 as 501 more patients died since Saturday morning.   India currently has 440,962 active cases, while 8,521,617 patients have been discharged from hospitals.