Amid a global scare over Omicron, the new strain of Covid-19, the overall number of coronavirus cases has surged past 274 million.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 274,184,518 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,349,691 till Sunday morning.

The US has recorded 50,772,786 cases to date and more than 806,265 people have died so far from the virus in the country, as per the university data.

Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January, registered 22,204,941 cases as of Friday, while its Covid death toll rose to 617,395.

India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 34,740,275 on Sunday and deaths from the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 477,422. Till Saturday, 126 cases of the Omicron variant were reported in India.