According to the Johns Hopkins University updates, the global Covid-19 caseload has topped 213.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.46 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.03 billion. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and vaccination tally stood at 213,809,638, 4,461,819 and 5,035,870,728, respectively.
The United Staes continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 38,217,956 and 632,223, respectively, according to the CSSE. The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (20,645,537), France (6,757,783), Russia (6,709,605), the UK (6,621,762), Turkey (6,273,651), Argentina (5,155,079), Colombia (4,897,150), Spain (4,815,205), Iran (4,796,377), Italy (4,502,396), Indonesia (4,026,837), Germany (3,901,978) and Mexico (3,249,878), the CSSE figures showed. In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 576,645 fatalities.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 32,512,366 cases. Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (435,758), Mexico (254,466), Peru (197,944), Russia (175,328), the UK (132,323), Italy (128,914), Indonesia (129,293), Colombia (124,474), France (114,119), Argentina (110,966) and Iran (104,022).
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