The overall number of Covid cases has now surged past 501 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 501,512,915 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,188,577 Thursday morning.
The US has recorded 80,518,050 cases so far and 987,331 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
There has been a slight increase in cases in recent weeks in US, with daily confirmed cases nationwide rising from about 25,000 per day to more than 30,000, reports AP.
More than 85% of those cases are the highly contagious BA.2 strain. Those figures could be an undercount since many people now test positive on at-home tests that are not reported to public health agencies.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,038,016 on Wednesday, with 1088 new cases registered in 24 hours across the South Asian country, showed the federal health ministry's data.
Besides, 26 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death toll to 521,736.
