Global C-19 cases top 140.6mn
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 140.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed the current global caseload stood at 140,433,831 and death toll at 3,008,043.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest cases and deaths at 31,627,701 and 566,893, respectively. In terms of infections, India is at the second place with 14,526,609 cases.
The other countries with over two million confirmed cases are Brazil (13,900,091), France (5,321,176), Russia (4,640,537), the UK (4,401,176), Turkey (4,212,645), Italy (3,857,443), Spain (3,407,283), Germany (3,139,683), Argentina (2,677,747), Poland (2,675,874), Colombia (2,636,076), Mexico (2,299,939) and Iran (2,215,445), the CSSE figures showed. Brazil comes second with 371,678 fatalities.
Nations with a death toll of over 50,000 are Mexico (211,693), India (175,649), the UK (127,508), Italy (116,676), Russia (103,451), France (100,563), Germany (79,914), Spain (76,981), Colombia (67,931), Iran (66,327), Poland (61,825), Argentina (59,164), Peru (56,454) and South Africa (53,711).
Germany remembers nearly 80,000 dead
Germany
pays tribute on Sunday to the nearly 80,000 people it has lost to the coronavirus, even as the countr y struggles to get a grip on another wave. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will lead a memorial event with other top officials at Berlin's Konzerthaus concert hall. His office says it is also dedicated to the bereaved "who could not accompany their relatives when they died and for whom important and comforting rituals of mourning were not possible." Chancellor Angela Merkel is tr ying to get a bill through parliament that would mandate an "emergency brake" in areas where there are more than 100 weekly new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Brazil records over 370,000 deaths
Brazil's
Covid-19 death toll has reached 371,678 af ter 2,929 fatalities were registered in the past 24 hours, the countr y's Ministr y of Health reported. According to the Ministr y, another 67,636 cases were registered in the same period, which increased the overall infection tally to 13,900,091, reports Xinhua.