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 August 4, 2021, at 4:30pm EST.

On Wednesday, health officials in Italy logged 6,596 new infections, numbers not seen since May. Of the cumulative 4.3 million confirmed positive cases, 94.8% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 21, brining the total number of fatalities to 128,136.


Globally, over 200 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 180 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 4.2 million worldwide.