Coronavirus pandemic continues wreaking havoc worldwide. According to worldometer.com, so far 160,398,044 have found infected. Of these, 138,190,472 people have been cured, while 3,333,548 people have died.
Meanwhile, 7,10,122 coronavirus cases with 13,444 deaths reported in the last 24 hours in the world. At the same time, the US reported 34,904 cases in the last 24 hours.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that the Indian COVID-19 variant, responsible for the acceleration of country's explosive outbreak has been identified in dozens of countries all over the world. Apart from India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of Covid cases caused by the Indian variant.
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first identified in India in October, had been detected in more than 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access database "from 44 countries in all six WHO regions. And WHO has received reports of detections from five additional countries."
India reported 3,48,421 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative count of the cases to 2,33,40,938, the Union Health Ministry reported on Wednesday. With 4205 people succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours, the death toll has mounted to 2,54,197. Currently, there are 37,04,099 active cases of COVID-19 in the country.
The country also witnessed as many as 3,55,338 recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative recoveries to 1,93,82,642. According to the ICMR, as many as 30,75,83,991 samples tested for COVID-19 up to May 11. Of these 19,83,804 samples tested on Tuesday. The total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered stand at over 17,52,35,991 crore, informed the health ministry.
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