Although Covid-19 cases around the world are declining the overall number of cases is approaching 250 million as the virus is still infecting people.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 249,849,645 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,048,854, as of Monday morning.

The US has recorded 46,487,740 cases to date and more than 754,429 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.

In the US, winter is coming and diseases like Covid-19 often spread easier with people indoors and closer together. The worst surge in the nation happened last winter, before the vaccines were widely available, reports AP.

While cases around the world are declining, the World Health Organization said this week new cases jumped by 6% in Europe, compared with an 18% increase the previous week.

The number of Americans in the hospital with Covid-19 is averaging around 42,000, the lowest number since the beginning of August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But deaths, which lag behind increasing case counts because it can take weeks for the disease to kill, continue to mount. The US is averaging 1,100 coronavirus deaths per day, down from more than 1,600 two weeks ago.

Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, registered 21,880,439 cases as of Monday, while its Covid death toll rose to 609,447.

India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 34,355,536 on Sunday, as 10,853 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Besides, 526 deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 460,791.

Russia registered 39,165 COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, taking the national tally to 8,795,095, the official monitoring and response center said Sunday.

The national death toll grew by 1,179 to 246,814 and the number of recoveries increased by 26,806 to 7,561,978.

Situation in Bangladesh

Bangladesh logged four more Covid-linked deaths and reported 178 fresh infections in 24 hours till Sunday morning.

On Saturday, the country saw just a single death from Covid-19 which was the lowest in nearly 18 months along with 154 cases.

The fresh numbers took the total fatalities to 27,895 while the country’s caseload mounted to 1,571,013, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Three of the deceased were men and one was a woman.

Meanwhile, the daily-case positivity rate slightly declined to 1.17 per cent from Saturday’s 1.18 per cent.

However, the mortality rate remained static at 1.78 per cent.

The fresh cases were detected after testing 15, 234 samples, said the DGHS.

Also, the recovery rate remained unchanged at 97.70 per cent with the recovery of 190 more patients during the period.

So far, 3,12,88,572 people have fully been vaccinated in the country while 4,55,91,130 received the first dose as of Sunday, according to the DGHS.