Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of January 21, 2022, at 5:45 pm EST.
On Friday, health officials in Mexico logged 50,373 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 4.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 78.8% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 278 Covid-related deaths for a total of 302,390 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
Globally, over 345 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 276 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 5.5 million worldwide.