The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 500 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 500,363,741 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,183,944 Wednesday morning.

The US has recorded 80,476,404 cases so far and 986,346 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 43,036,928 on Tuesday, with 796 new cases registered in 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry’s data.

Besides, 19 deaths due to the pandemic since Monday morning took the total death toll to 521,710.

Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 30,161,909 infections as of Wednesday, while its Covid death toll rose to 661,576.