The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 605 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 604,892,165 and the death toll reached 6,485,604 on Saturday morning.
The US has recorded 95,970,007 cases so far and 1,068,843 people have died from the virus in the country, the data shows.
India’s daily Covid-19 caseload on Saturday fell below the 10,000 mark with 9520 new cases being reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,389,696 the world’s second largest caseload, according to official data. The cases marked a slight decrease in comparison to the daily caseload of 10,725 on Thursday.
The country also logged 41 related deaths during the past 24 hours, pushing the overall toll to 527,597 since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.
The daily positivity rate stands at 2.43 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was 3.02 per cent, the ministry data showed.
Two more people died from Covid, and 156 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in 24 hours till Saturday morning.
While the country`s total fatalities reached 29,323, the new numbers took its caseload to 2,011,100, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The daily case test positivity rate rose to 4.26 from Friday’s 4.15 percent as 3,663 samples were tested.
