Day: 28 November 2021

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of November 28, 2021, at 6:00 pm EST.

On Sunday, health officials in Italy logged 12,932 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 93.6% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 47 Covid-related deaths for a total of 133,674 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Surge of infections: almost a thousand cases in Ontario, 1,000 new daily infections in Quebec in the weekend

TORONTO – Despite the snow has whitened everything, it was a black weekend in Ontario on the Covid front. Today 964 new cases were registered, the highest number reported in a single day since last May 30, when 1,033 cases were detected. But Saturday and Friday wasn’t better, with – respectively – 854 and 927 infections. Now the seven-day moving average is 760, last week it was 645. And the positivity rate also rises: with 29,692 tests processed in the last 24 hours and 964 cases detected, it is now 3.2%.  (more…)