{"id":38380,"date":"2021-05-27T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=38380"},"modified":"2021-05-27T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:28:21","slug":"global-covid-19-caseload-tops-168-1-mn-deaths-surge-to-more-than-3-49-mn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=38380","title":{"rendered":"Global Covid-19 caseload tops 168.1 mn; Deaths surge to more than 3.49 mn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Washington, May 27: <\/em><\/strong><em>The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 168.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.49 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University&#8217;s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 168,181,146 and 3,494,001, respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world&#8217;s highest number of cases and deaths at 33,190,016 and 591,947, respectively, according to the CSSE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 27,157,795 cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (16,274,695), France (5,683,143), Turkey (5,212,123), Russia (4,968,421), the UK (4,486,168), Italy (4,201,827), Germany (3,667,041), Spain (3,657,886), Argentina (3,622,135) and Colombia (3,294,101), the CSSE figures showed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 454,429 fatalities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (311,388), Mexico (221,963), the UK (128,010), Italy (125,622), Russia (117,595) and France (109,185).\u2014(IANS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, May 27: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 168.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.49 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University&#8217;s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}