The data released by Johns Hopkins University showed that the worldwide coronavirus caseload has surpassed 405.6 million, with over 5.78 million fatalities and over 10.14 billion vaccines.

The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) released its latest update on Friday morning, revealing that the current global caseload and death toll were 405,688,274 and 5,788,456, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered had increased to 10,143,832,034. According to the CSSE, the United States continues to be the worst-affected country, with 77,437,114 cases and 915,349 fatalities.

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (42,478,060 infections and 506,520 deaths), followed by Brazil (27,135,550 infections and 636,338 deaths).

The other countries with over 5 million cases are France (21,511,410), the UK (18,285,929), Russia (13,323,972), Turkey (12,653,276), Italy (11,923,631), Germany (11,897,014), Spain (10,555,196), Argentina (8,675,327), Iran (6,696,927), Colombia (5,994,301), the Netherlands (5,524,764), Poland (5,258,785) and Mexico (5,167,110), the CSSE figures showed.

The nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are Russia (331,300), Mexico (309,884), Peru (207,312), the UK (159,709), Italy (150,221), Indonesia (144,719), Colombia (136,404), France (135,262), Iran (133,164), Argentina (123,444), Germany (119,506), Ukraine (108,668) and Poland (107,204).

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