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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of December 15, 2021, at 4:45 pm EST.

On Wednesday, health officials in the UK logged 78,610 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 11.0 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases, 87.4% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 165 Covid-related deaths for a total of 146,791 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Globally, over 272 million cases have confirmed positive for Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 244 million people have recovered. Fatalities attributable to Covid-19 now surpass 5.3 million worldwide.