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 October 20, 2021, at 5:45 pm EST.

On Wednesday, health officials in the US logged 50,150 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 46 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 77.7% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 1,273, bringing the total number of fatalities to 750,068.


Globally, over 241 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 219 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 4.9 million worldwide.