Day: 7 December 2021

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide


Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of December 7, 2021, at 4:50 pm EST.

On Tuesday, health officials in Poland logged 19,366 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 3.7 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 86.0% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 504 Covid-related deaths for a total of 86,205 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Covid-19 in Ontario, positivity never so high since May

TORONTO – Just take a few more swabs and immediately the number of new Covid-19 cases skyrockets: 928 registrations today in Ontario out of a total of 26,000 tests processed, with the positivity rate reaching 3.8% that is the highest percentage since the end of May (yesterday, with 25,981 tests and 887 cases, the rate was 3.5%). The seven-day moving average of new cases is now 975 (yesterday it was 940, a week ago it was 794).  (more…)