The global coronavirus caseload has topped 246.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.99 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.94 billion…reports Asian Lite News
In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number number of vaccine doses administered stood at 246,693,288, 4,999,486, and 6,947,883,074, respectively.
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 45,967,772 and 745,805, according to the CSSE.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,273,300 cases and Brazil third with 21,810,855 infections.
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The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are the UK (9,100,442), Russia (8,377,984), Turkey (8,032,958), France (7,268,527), Iran (5,924,638), Argentina (5,288,807), Spain (5,011,148), Colombia (5,002,387), Italy (4,771,965), Germany (4,607,958), Indonesia (4,244,358) and Mexico (3,805,765), the CSSE figures showed.
Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are Brazil (607,824), India (457,740), Mexico (288,276), Russia (234,194), Peru (200,246), Indonesia (143,405), the UK (141,055), Italy (132,100), Colombia (127,281), Iran (126,303), France (118,625) and Argentina (115,950).