As the Delta variant is spreading the pandemic to levels seen at the beginning of this year, 161331 new cases of coronavirus infections were reported in the United States on Thursday. With this, the national total has increased to 38,384,595, as per the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
1296 additional casualties took the national COVID death toll to 633,566.
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May 08, 2026 15:50 ET Manufacturing and services sector survey results and labor market data from main economies were the highlight on the economics news front this week. Factory orders and jobs report dominated the news flow in the U.S. Similarly, industrial production data from German garnered attention in Europe. In Asia, purchasing managers’ survey results from China and the central bank decision from Australia were in focus.