US surpasses 15 million Covid-19 cases, India still among the lowest mortality rate countries

The US on Tuesday surpassed 15 million Covid-19 cases, according to an update by the Johns Hopkins University.

As the coronavirus situation worsens in the country, North Carolina is entering into a modified stay-at-home order, Governor Roy Cooper announced today during a news conference, reported CNN. The modified order will be from 10 pm to 5 am (local time), wherein all residents must stay at home.

"Our new modified stay-at-home order aims to limit gatherings and get people home where they are safer, especially during the holidays. It's also a reminder that we must be vigilant the rest of the day," Cooper said.

Meanwhile, Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a three-week extension of the state's current restrictions on Tuesday, which include bans on indoor dining and social gatherings, CNN reported.

Meanwhile, California recorded over 20,000 deaths as result of Covid-19 infections.

The state's Department of Public Health added 112 fatalities Tuesday, bringing the total to 20,047 since the pandemic hit the Golden State. The United States currently has 15,087,418 COVID-19 infections, along with 285,518 deaths.

India on the other hand, despite all the best possible efforts from the central and state governments, is struggling to contain the numbers of infected people and is going touch 10 million mark soon. The good thing amidst all the chaos and the ruckus is that it’s still maintaining a very low mortality rate of 1.45% which is much lower than several other countries of the world including that of United States of America sitting at 1.9%.

Covid-19 rate of death divided by confirmed cases, was over 10 percent in Yemen, the only country that has 1,000 or more cases. This according to a calculation that combines coronavirus stats on both deaths and registered cases for 174 different countries. The death rates are not the same as the chance of dying from an infection or the number of deaths based on an at-risk population. By December,2020, the virus had infected around 68 million people worldwide and the number of deaths had totalled more than 1.5 million. -TIN Bureau