The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 165.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.42 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Friday morning, 21 May, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 165,253,588 and 3,425,648, respectively.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 25,772,440 cases.

The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (15,894,094), France (5,979,099), Turkey (5,160,423), Russia (4,917,906), the UK (4,471,061), Italy (4,178,261), Germany (3,638,504), Spain (3,631,661), Argentina (3,447,044) and Colombia (3,177,212), the CSSE figures showed.

Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (287,122), Mexico (220,493), the UK (127,963), Italy (124,810), Russia (115,393) and France (108,343).

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