Global Covid-19 caseload tops 93.7 mn

Agencies

January 16, 2021

Global COVID19 Cases Exceed 93 Million, Death Toll Crosses 1.99 Million | OTV News

Washington, Jan 16: The overall global coronavirus caseload has topped 93.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 93,787,372 and 2,006,987, respectively.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 23,520,563 and 391,922, respectively, according to the CSSE.

India comes in second place in terms of cases at 10,527,683, while the country's death toll soared to 151,918.

The other countries with more than a million confirmed cases are Brazil (8,393,492), Russia (3,483,531), the UK (3,325,642), France (2,931,396), Turkey (2,373,115), Italy (2,352,423), Spain (2,252,164), Germany (2,023,801), Colombia (1,870,179), Argentina (1,783,047), Mexico (1,588,369), Poland (1,422,320), Iran (1,318,295), South Africa (1,311,686), Ukraine (1,183,963) and Peru (1,048,662), the CSSE figures showed.

Brazil currently accounts for the second highest number of fatalities at 208,246.

The countries with a death toll above 20,000 are Mexico (137,916), the UK (87,448), Italy (81,325), France (70,090), Russia (63,558), Iran (56,621), Spain (53,314), Colombia (47,868), Germany (45,705), Argentina (45,227), Peru (38,564), South Africa (36,467), Poland (32,844), Indonesia (25,484), Turkey (23,664), Ukraine (21,479) and Belgium (20,294).

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Cut all ties with Israel and impose arms, trade embargo; history will record our action: Iran to Muslim countries

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May 5,2024

Iran has urged Muslim countries to cut all relations with the Israeli regime as means of pressuring Tel Aviv to end its ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Saturday, addressing the 15th Heads of State and Government Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Gambia’s capital Banjul.

“Beyond doubt, this time period will also pass by, despite all its hardships and adversities for the Palestinian nation,” he said.

“However, the manner and quality of the role that is played by us, Muslim states, in the face of this crisis will go down in history,” the top diplomat added.

“Undoubtedly, severance of diplomatic and economic ties and [imposition of] practical arms and trade embargo [on Israel] serves as an important means of cessation of its genocide in Gaza and atrocities in the West Bank and the Noble al-Quds.”

At least 34,654 people have died in Gaza since October 7, when the Israeli regime began the war in response to al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

Despite the unabated campaign of bloodshed and destruction, the regime has so far fallen short of realizing its goals, including defeating Gaza’s resistance, causing forced displacement of the territory’s entire population to neighboring Egypt, and enabling the release of those who were taken captive during al-Aqsa Storm.

Amir-Abdollahian said Gaza’s developments proved that elimination of the Palestinian resistance “was nothing but an illusion.”

“Because the Israeli regime is not a legitimate government. It is only an occupying apartheid power,” he said, adding, “Passage of time is not going to lend legitimacy to an occupying power.”

The foreign minister asserted that realization of sustainable peace and security in the region was only possible through cessation of the regime’s occupation of Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland, and manifestation of Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

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