Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of March 19, 2022, at 6:30 pm EST.
On Saturday, health officials in Italy logged 74,024 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 13.8 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 90.5% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 85 Covid-related deaths for a total of 157,692 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
Globally, over 468 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 400 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 6.0 million worldwide.
The status of Covid-19 cases in India, Spain, Portugal, Bangladesh and the UK do not reflect complete data for March 19, 2022.
