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Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 104.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.26 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 104,358,117 and 2,267,768, respectively.
The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 26,554,204 and 450,680, respectively, according to the CSSE.
India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,777,284.
The other countries with more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases are Brazil (9,339,420), the UK (3,882,972), Russia (3,858,367), France (3,310,051), Spain (2,883,465), Italy (2,583,790), Turkey (2,501,079), Germany (2,252,504), Colombia (2,125,622), Argentina (1,952,744), Mexico (1,886,245), Poland (1,527,016), South Africa (1,463,016), Iran (1,438,286), Ukraine (1,270,001), Peru (1,149,764), Indonesia (1,111,671), Czech Republic (1,003,657) and the Netherlands (1,003,010), the CSSE figures showed.
Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of Covid-19 fatalities at 227,563, followed by Mexico (161,240) on the third place and India (154,596) on the fourth.
Meanwhile, the nations with a death toll above 20,000 are the UK (109,547), Italy (89,820), France (77,741), Russia (73,497), Spain (60,370), Germany (59,310), Iran (58,189), Colombia (54,877), Argentina (48,539), South Africa (45,344), Peru (41,354), Poland (37,897), Indonesia (30,770), Turkey (26,354), Ukraine (24,276), Belgium (21,173) and Canada (20,317).
France registers over 26,000 new Covid infections
France's cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic rose to 3,251,160 after 26,362 people tested positive for the virus in one day, official figures showed on Wednesday.
Another 357 people had lost their lives to the virus, bringing the death toll to 77,595, data posted on the government website showed, Xinhua news agency reported.
The number of hospitalized patients has fallen by 116 within a day to 27,955, while those who need life support inched down by 3 to 3,277, occupying 63 percent of the country's total 5,100 resuscitation beds.
"What indicates these figures is neither lull nor explosion," said government spokesperson Gabriel Attal at a weekly briefing. "We are on a high plateau but more or less stable."
Attal told reporters "the situation remains fragile" but it "is in our hands ... Confinement is not inevitable and it is our collective efforts that will allow us to avoid it."
Some 1,682,951 people in France have been vaccinated, including 140,140 who have received two doses, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
Last Friday, the French government decided against a new lockdown, but it tightened border controls, ordered closure of large shopping malls to reduce people contacts and intensified police patrols to enforce curfew.
A night-time ban on people's movement, in force since mid-December, was brought forward by two hours in the French territory on January 16 to reduce social mixing.
