The University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) released its latest update on Monday morning, revealing that the current global caseload and death toll were 350,909,728 and 5,595,929, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered had increased to 9,795,554,434.

According to the CSSE, the United States continues to be the worst-affected country, with 70,699,416 cases and 866,540 fatalities. India is the country with the second-highest number of cases (39,237,264 infections and 489,409 fatalities), followed by Brazil (24,054,405 infections and 623,370 deaths).

The other countries with over 5 million cases are France (16,807,733), the UK (15,966,838), Turkey (10,947,129), Russia (10,923,494), Italy (9,923,678), Spain (8,975,458), Germany (8,717,091), Argentina (7,862,536) Iran (6,250,490) and Colombia (5,740,179), the CSSE figures showed.
 
The nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are Russia (319,536), Mexico (303,085), Peru (204,141), the UK (154,374), Indonesia (144,220), Italy (143,523), Colombia (132,240), Iran (132,230), France (129,620), Argentina (119,168), Germany (116,723), Ukraine (105,791) and Poland (103,844).

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