Overall, 47 states are showing new cases up 10% from a week ago, according to Johns Hopkins University data. See also: Delta variant drove COVID-19 cases higher across the globe last week — including in the U.S.“ “Despite national, regional, and global efforts, the pandemic is nowhere near finished. The U.S. leads the world with a total of 33.9 million cases and in deaths with 608,167. Mexico has the fourth-highest death toll at 235,507 but has recorded just 2.6 million cases, according to its official numbers. China, where the virus was first discovered late in 2019, has had 104,157 confirmed cases and 4,848 deaths, according to its official numbers, which are widely held to be massively underreported.
