The global coronavirus caseload has topped 247.1 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5 million and vaccinations soared to over 7.08 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number number of vaccine doses administered stood at 247,123,213, 5,005,420 and 7,083,312,988, respectively.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 46,089,514 and 746,982, according to the CSSE.

The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are the UK (9,140,441), Russia (8,417,305), Turkey (8,032,958), France (7,268,527), Iran (5,924,638), Argentina (5,288,807), Spain (5,011,148), Colombia (5,002,387), Italy (4,771,965), Germany (4,607,958), Indonesia (4,244,358), Mexico (3,805,765) and Ukraine (3,073,125), the CSSE figures showed.

Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are Brazil (607,922), India (458,437), Mexico (288,464), Russia (235,318), Peru (200,246), Indonesia (143,405), the UK (141,098), Italy (132,100), Colombia (127,281), Iran (126,303), France (118,625) and Argentina (115,950).

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