Live Updates: India Reports 1,183 New COVID-19 Deaths in Past 24 Hours

The global death toll from the coronavirus infection has topped 3.908 million; 180.3 million cases of the infection have been detected, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.

The United States, India and Brazil are the top three countries in terms of the number of registered coronavirus infections, while the largest number of COVID-19-related deaths has been observed in the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The delta coronavirus variant is spreading rapidly through the European Union, but two shots of a coronavirus vaccine protect very effectively against it, while a single shot can at least reduce risks of a severe illness, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is concerned about the transmissibility of the Delta coronavirus variant, first identified in India and now present in 85 countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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