C T Online Desk: The overall number of Covid-19 cases has surged past 463 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the total case count mounted to 463,663,236 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,057,996 on Thursday morning.

The United States has recorded 79,631,708 cases so far and 968,329 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 42,998,938 on Wednesday, as 2,876 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry data.

Besides, as many as 98 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death toll to 516,072.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,488,777 cases as of Wednesday, while its Covid-19 death toll rose to 656,231.

According to the World Health Organisation, the number of new coronavirus deaths reported worldwide fell by 17 per cent in the last week while Covid-19 infections rose, reversing a decline in cases that first began in January.

In the United Nations health agency’s weekly report on the pandemic issued late Tuesday, WHO said there were more than 11 million new Covid-19 infections last week — about an 8 per cent rise — and 43,000 new deaths. The number of Covid-19 deaths globally has been dropping for the past three weeks.

The biggest increase in cases were seen in the Western Pacific and Africa, where infections rose by 29 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively. Elsewhere, cases dropped by more than 20 per cent in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the Americas. In Europe, cases inched up by about 2 per cent.

No Covid-related death was reported in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Wednesday morning like the previous day.

On Tuesday, the country logged zero Covid-related death after more than three months.

Besides, 182 more infections were reported during the 24-hour period.

The country reported its first zero Covid-related death in a single day on November 20 last year, along with 178 infections, since the pandemic broke out in Bangladesh in March 2020.

The daily positivity rate declined to 1.38 per cent from Tuesday’s 1.54 per cent after 13,062 samples were tested during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.

With the latest report, the country’s total fatalities stated static at 29,112 while the caseload rose to 19,50,124.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.49 per cent.

The recovery rate rose to 95.67 per cent with the recovery of 1,192 more patients during the 24-hour period.

On January 28, Bangladesh logged its previous highest daily positivity rate at 33.37 per cent reporting 15,440 cases and 20 deaths.

Besides, the country registered the highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year, while the highest number of daily fatalities was 264 on August 10 last year.