The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped 477.2 million, while deaths jumped to more than 6.10 million and vaccinations jumped to more than 10.84 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global case count and death toll stood at 477,186,449 and 6, respectively. 109,163, while the total number of vaccine doses administered rose to 10,849,877,219.

The United States continues to be the worst-affected country with the highest number of cases and deaths in the world at 79,888,564 and 975,838, according to the CSSE.

India accounts for the second highest number of cases with 43,014,687.

Other countries with more than 10 million cases are Brazil (29,775,568), France (24,823,603), United Kingdom (20,770,686), Germany (19,265,563), Russia (17 433,393), Turkey (14,760,331), Italy (14,153,098), Spain (11,378,784) and South Korea (11,162,232), according to CSSE figures.

Countries with a death toll over 100,000 are Brazil (658,600), India (516,672), Russia (358,919), Mexico (322,119), Peru (211,981), United Kingdom (164,874), Italy (158,436), Indonesia (154,343), France (142,476), Iran (139,865), Colombia (139,531), Argentina (127,780), Germany ( 127,363), Poland (114,626), Ukraine (112,459) and Spain (102,053).

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