The overall number of Covid-19 cases has surpassed 325 million, with a spike in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 325,725,055 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,534,775 on Sunday morning.
The US has recorded 65,402,606 cases so far and 849,994 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India reported 537,832 new Covid-19 cases Sunday, as the tally rose to 37,119,961 in 24 hours, as per the federal health ministry's latest data.
Besides, 342 fatalities due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 486,094.
Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since last January, registered 22,981,851 cases as of Saturday while its Covid-19 death toll rose to 621,233.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh logged seven more Covid-19-linked deaths with 3,447 more infections in the 24 hours till Saturday morning.
With the fresh cases reported after testing 24,028 samples, the daily positivity rate declined slightly to 14.35% from 14.66% on Friday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh numbers took the country’s total fatalities to 28,136 while the caseload mounted to 1,612,489.
The mortality rate dropped a bit to 1.74% from Friday’s 1.75%.
The recovery rate declined again to 96.29% with the recovery of 274 more patients during the period.
The total number of Omicron infections in Bangladesh reached 33 with the detection of nine more cases till Wednesday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
Amid the growing concern over the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the government on January 13 came out with the restrictions on the movement of people and public transport.