C T Online Desk: The overall number of Covid-19 cases is rapidly approaching 474 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the total case count mounted to 473,942,775 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,098,277 Wednesday morning.
The United States has recorded 79,803,443 cases so far and 973,213 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,010,971 on Tuesday with 1,581 new cases registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.
Besides, as many as 33 deaths due to the pandemic since Monday morning took the total death toll to 516,574.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,691,641 cases as of Wednesday, while its Covid-19 death toll rose to 658,005.
Bangladesh again reported zero Covid death, with 121 fresh cases in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
The daily positivity rate rose a bit to 1.11 per cent from Monday’s 1.06 per cent after 10,974 samples were tested during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
With the latest numbers, the country’s total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,117 while the caseload mounted to 19,50,846.
Besides, the mortality rate remained unchanged too at 1.49 per cent.
