Official data showed that the total number of Coronavirus infections worldwide exceeded 149.6 million as of Thursday morning, while the number of vaccine doses given around the world exceeded one billion doses.
The data also showed that the number of people recovering reached nearly 87 million, while the total deaths increased to 3 million and 151 thousand cases.
The United States leads the world in terms of the number of injuries, followed by India, Brazil, France, Turkey, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Poland, Iran and Mexico.
What is happening in India?
India recorded - on Thursday - a record high in cases of infection with the Coronavirus and deaths resulting from it, bringing the total number of infections to more than 18 million, while the government rejected reports that talked about problems in the vaccination campaign.
The Ministry of Health data revealed that nearly 380,000 new infections and 3,645 deaths were recorded today, Thursday, in the highest daily death toll recorded by the country since the start of the pandemic.
Experts said that the hope of controlling the second violent wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India lies in the vaccination of its huge population.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the country opened the door to registration for everyone over the age of 18 to receive the vaccine, starting from Saturday.
But India - which is one of the largest vaccine producers in the world - does not have sufficient stocks to vaccinate about 600 million people eligible to receive the vaccine.
Many said that they had failed to register to receive the vaccine, and complained on social media that they were unable to set a date for vaccination, or were unable to register online due to the repeated disruption of the dedicated website.
But the government said - in a statement late on Wednesday - that "the statistics indicate that the system - in complete contrast to talk of stopping or slowing its performance - is operating without any defect."
Support for India
In this regard, two planes from Russia arrived in the capital, Delhi, today, Thursday, carrying 20 oxygen generators, 75 ventilators, 150 monitoring devices placed on the side of the beds, and medicines equivalent to a total of 22 metric tons.
The United States will send more than $ 100 million worth of supplies to India, including 1,000 oxygen cylinders, 15 million N95 masks, and one million rapid diagnostic tests, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
Delhi records a Covid-19 death every 4 minutes, and ambulances transport victims to temporary cremation facilities in public squares and parking spaces where bodies are placed in rows for mass cremation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing criticism for allowing mass political conferences and religious celebrations, which has caused the infection to spread widely in recent weeks.
Corona in Europe
In Europe, more than 50 million people have been infected with the epidemic since the end of 2019, according to a statistic conducted by the French Press Agency yesterday based on official reports, and among the more than 3.13 million deaths recorded in the world, more than one million and 600 thousand were in Europe.
A slowdown in the spread of the epidemic has been observed in most European countries, which are cautiously easing restrictions imposed to contain the latest recovery of the epidemic, as the number of daily infections has decreased for two weeks.
The Netherlands reopened its café terraces yesterday and lifted the curfew, a measure imposed in January sparking the country's worst riots in decades.
In the United Kingdom - the worst-affected country on the continent - an average of 2,300 new infections per day is recorded, thanks to closures and a massive vaccination campaign launched in early December, which allowed at least one dose to be given to 64% of the adult population.
In France, the European country most affected in terms of the total number of injuries, there appears to be a timid decrease in the number of new infections, and the country has returned to below the level that is still high, which is 30,000 new daily injuries.
France is considering lifting restrictions in stages in May and June, and President Emmanuel Macron will present the plan to the regional press on Friday.