As of 5:00 am on Monday, November 29, 2021, The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard reports the following data: 

                          Global Cases -261,664,156       Global Deaths – 5,202,942

                           U.S. Cases – 48,235,005           U.S. Deaths – 776,651

Today the World Heath Organization said in a new risk assessment, that it believes the COVID-19 Omicron variant poses a “very high” risk to the globe because it may be more transmissible than other strains of the virus.