The global Covid-19 caseload has surpassed 229 million, but there are some unmistakable signs that the pandemic is starting to wane finally, both globally and in Bangladesh.
With more and more people around the globe vaccinated, it should also be more difficult for the virus to gain transmission momentum today, than at any previous point since the novel coronavirus appeared in late 2019.
As of this, the 37th week of 2021, case numbers are falling in a majority of countries around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data analysed by the European CDC.
According to their analysis, although new case numbers have increased from the week before in 64 countries, there are now 108 countries in which they have decreased - including the worst-affected countries like the USA, India, Brazil, South Africa. Bangladesh is among them.
There are also 5 countries - mostly Pacific Island nations with small populations - now that have not seen any new infections for four consecutive weeks. In eleven countries, case numbers are said to be holding steady from where they were a week ago. Of the majorly affected countries, the UK is in this category.
The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 229,033,528 and 4,702,125, respectively, as of Sunday evening, according to Worldometers. The US has logged 42,048,376 cases and 673,464 deaths to date, according to the JHU data.
Brazil, which has the world's second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States and the third-largest caseload after the US and India, recorded 21,230,325 cases with 590,508 fatalities, as of Wednesday.
India's COVID-19 tally rose to 33,417,390 on Saturday, as 35,662 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.
Besides, 281 more deaths were also recorded since Friday morning, taking the death toll to 444,529.
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