The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 310 million, with a spike in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across the globe.

According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 310,052,676 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,494,246 Tuesday morning.

The US has recorded 61,492,765 cases so far and 839,480 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows. The total number of Covid cases in the US topped 60 million on Sunday.

India’s Covid tally rose to 35,869,947 Monday as a steep rise of 180,438 new daily cases were registered, as per the federal health ministry’s latest data.

That was the fourth consecutive day when more than 100,000 daily cases were registered in the country.

Besides, 146 pandemic-related deaths since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 483,936.