India sees over 226 pc surge in startup funding at $596 mn this week
The Indian startup ecosystem bounced back this week in terms of raising funds, clocking more than 226 per cent surge with securing around $596 million in total.
The global coronavirus cases have reached 202 million, while the deaths surged past over 4.28 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.37 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) informed that the current global caseload, the death toll stood and vaccination tally stood at 202,183,140, 4,285,440 and 4,376,808,997, respectively.
America continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 35,738,154 and 616,713, respectively, according to the CSSE.
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In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 31,895,385 cases.
The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (20,151,779), France (6,350,899), Russia (6,340,370), the UK (6,070,873), Turkey (5,870,741), Argentina (5,012,754), Colombia (4,834,634), Spain (4,588,132), Italy (4,390,684), Iran (4,119,110), Germany (3,795,609) and Indonesia (3,639,616), the CSSE figures showed.
In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 562,752 fatalities.
Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (427,371), Mexico (243,733), Peru (196,873), Russia (161,343), the UK (130,585), Italy (128,209), Colombia (122,277), France (112,379), Argentina (107,302) and Indonesia (100,636).
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