Covid-19: Cases near 152 million globally

The confirmed case of coronavirus is approaching 152 million across the globe with 3.18 million fatalities on Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

The total case count reached 151,774,770 while the death toll from the virus climbed to 3,188, 331 as of Sunday morning.

The US which remains the world’s worst hit country in number of cases and deaths has recorded 32,389,652 cases and 576,719 deaths respectively.

Brazil’s national death toll climbed to  406,437 and its nationwide tally reached  14,725,975 as of Sunday morning, according to data compiled by JHU.

April has been the month with the most deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in the Latin American nation.

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

Amid the monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India has logged 19,164, 969 cases with 211,853 fatalities.

The authorities concerned  in India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation effort that was sure to tax the limits of the federal government, the country’s vaccine factories and the patience of its 1.4 billion people.

The country’s ambitious effort was also partly overshadowed Saturday by a fire in a COVID-19 ward in western India that killed 18 patients, and the death of 12 COVID-19 patients at a hospital in New Delhi after the facility ran out of oxygen for 80 minutes, reports AP.