BEIJING, Mar 21 (Xinhua): The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 1,947 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission's Monday report showed.
Of the new local infections, 1,542 were reported in Jilin, 154 in Fujian, 51 in Hebei, 38 in Guangdong, 35 in Liaoning, 27 in Heilongjiang, 24 in Shanghai, 18 in Tianjin, 14 in Shaanxi, 13 in Shandong, 10 in Hunan.
For other provincial-level regions, Gansu reported six cases, Beijing and Yunnan each reported four, Inner Mongolia and Zhejiang each reported two, and Jiangxi, Henan and Chongqing each reported one.
A total of 80 imported Covid-19 cases were reported Sunday, said the commission. It added that six suspected cases, all imported, were reported in Shanghai.
However, according to agencies, the overall number of Covid cases has surged past 470 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 470,646,813 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,077,482 Monday morning.
The US has recorded 79,734,788 cases so far and 971,162 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,007,841 on Sunday, as 1,761 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.
Besides, as many as 127 deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the total death toll to 516,479.
Brazil reported 304 deaths and 44,154 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 657,102 and the total caseload to 29,617,266, the country's Ministry of Health reported Saturday.
Brazil has been struggling with the Omicron variant of the virus since the end of December, with a record number of infections in January, but since February, indicators such as deaths, hospitalizations and positive cases have been in sharp decline, according to official data.
