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 January 8, 2022, at 4:40 pm EST.

On Saturday, health officials in Germany logged 42,422 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 7.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 89.2% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 161 Covid-related deaths for a total of 114,652 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.


Globally, over 304 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 258 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 5.4 million worldwide.

Values for Spain and India do not reflect complete data for January 8, 2022.