Bangladesh, June 11 -- Amid emergence of new variants and efforts to achieve vaccine equality, the global Covid-19 caseload has crossed the 174-million mark.

The global case count and fatalities stand at 174,766,343 and 3,769,345 respectively as of Friday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

To date, some 2,242, 825,732 people have been vaccinated globally, as per JHU data.

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The US, which is the world's worst-hit country in terms of both cases and deaths, has so far logged 33,427,489 cases and 598,728 deaths, Johns Hopkins figures reveal.

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 29,273,338 on Friday with 91,266 new cases reported in 24 hours, said the fed...