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More than 168 million people have been found infected with the virus as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world.
The total caseload reached 168,181,146 as of Thursday morning while the death toll from the virus climbed to 3,494,001, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
So far, 1,737,293,414 doses of vaccines have been administered across the world.
The US, which remained the world’s worst-hit country in both numbers of cases and deaths, has logged 33,190,016 with 591,947 fatalities.
India has been experiencing a staggering Covid-19 situation as in recent weeks the country has been counting deaths of more than 4,000 people a day.
Amid worries over the reports of black fungus in India, the country has recorded 27,157,795 cases while the death toll from the virus mounted to 311,388 to date.
Brazil on Wednesday reported 2,398 more deaths from Covid-19, raising the national count to 454,429, the Ministry of Health said.
A total of 80,486 more infections were detected, raising the nationwide tally to 16,274,695, the ministry said.
Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest caseload, following the United States and India.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged 17 more Covid-related deaths in 24 hours until Wednesday morning, the lowest number in 68 days.
The country saw 16 Covid-19 deaths on March 18 last.
Besides, 1,497 new cases were recorded taking the total caseload to 7,93,693, said a handout of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
Health authorities recorded the new cases after testing 16,434 samples in the last 24 hours.
