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Coronavirus pandemic
REUTERS
Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with almost 140 million
confirmed cases and 3 million deaths across nearly 200 countries.
The US, India and Brazil have seen the highest number of confirmed cases,
followed by France, Russia and the UK.
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47,715,002 1,020,553
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31,400,000
3,140,000
In the table below, countries can be reordered by deaths, death rate and total
cases. In the coloured bars on the right-hand side, countries in which cases
have risen to more than 10,000 per day are those with black bars on the
relevant date.
data in detail
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Country Deaths Death rate* Total Cases
Slovenia 4,147 199.6 230,826
New Cases
Azerbaijan 4,077 41.0 296,374
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This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country.
** The past data for new cases is a three day rolling average. Due to revisions in the number of cases, an average
cannot be calculated for this date.
Source: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies and UN population data
Figures last updated: 17 April 2021, 10:41 BST
Note: The map, table and animated bar chart in this page use a different source
for figures for France and the UK from that used by Johns Hopkins University,
which results in a slightly lower overall total. US figures do not include Puerto
Rico, Guam or the US Virgin Islands.
Confirmed cases have been rising steeply since the middle of last year, but the
true extent of the first outbreaks in 2020 is unclear because testing was not
then widely available.
The 100 millionth coronavirus case was recorded at the end of January - about
a year aer the first officially diagnosed case of the virus.
Deaths have also been rising, however official figures may not fully reflect the
true number in many countries.
Data on excess deaths, a measure of how many more people are dying than
would be expected based on the previous few years, may give a better
indication of the actual numbers in many cases.
The map below, using figures collated by Our World in Data - a collaboration
between Oxford University and an educational charity - shows the total
number of doses given per 100 people, mostly first doses.
UK 61.3 40,958,303
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This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country. Total
vaccinations refers to the number of doses given, not the number of people vaccinated. It is possible to
have more than 100 doses per 100 population as some vaccines require two doses per person.
Source: Our World in Data, ONS, gov.uk dashboard
Last updated: 16 April 2021, 12:37 BST
Overall, the US and China have given the most doses, 198 million and 183
million respectively, while India has administered more than 117 million so far.
But when breaking the figures down by doses per 100 people in countries with
a population of at least one million, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Chile and
the UK top the list.
Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who
are clinically vulnerable.
Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need,
while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan known as
Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a
vaccine.
Several African countries have received vaccines through the Covax initiative,
with vaccinations now underway in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya and
Rwanda, among others.
Europe
Several European countries including Turkey, France and Germany are seeing
rises in infections once more.
France, in the midst of a third national lockdown, has become the third
country in Europe aer the UK and Italy to reach 100,000 Covid-19-related
deaths.
Poland has seen a record number of new infections and Hungary has suffered
one of the highest Covid mortality rates in the world.
Vaccine rollouts across the European Union have been problematic. There
have been delays to deliveries and concerns over the safety of the Oxford-
Astra Zeneca vaccine, which a number of countries have withdrawn from use
or restricted to certain age groups.
The US has recorded more than 31 million cases and more than 565,000
deaths, the highest figures in the world.
Canada, which has a far lower death rate than the US, also experienced a
recent surge. Daily cases there fell in January before rising in March and April.
Asia
Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from China in early
2020, but the number of cases and deaths there has been lower than in
Europe and North America.
The number of cases has been surging in India, the Philippines and
Bangladesh.
India has seen more than 14 million confirmed cases, the second-highest total
in the world aer the US.
Middle East
Several countries in the Middle East have had deadly coronavirus outbreaks
over the past 12 months, with Iran and Egypt having seen the highest numbers
of deaths.
Cases have fallen in Israel but several countries, including Iran and Iraq are
currently seeing renewed outbreaks.
Africa has recorded more than 4.3 million cases and over 117,000 deaths - but
the true extent of the pandemic in many African countries is not known as
testing rates are low.
South Africa, with more than 1.5 million cases, is the worst affected country on
the continent, according to official figures.
Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria and Kenya have also
recorded more than 100,000 cases.
Brazil's infection rate has soared in recent weeks, and daily deaths account for
about a quarter of all Covid-19 fatalities in the world.
The country has recorded more than 365,000 deaths, and a recent estimate
from the University of Washington predicted that Brazil could see a total of
more than 500,000 deaths by July.
Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have all recorded more than two million
cases.
At the end of March, Mexico published a revised death toll, suggesting that
the number of coronavirus fatalities was more than 60% higher than
previously reported. More than 321,000 people were calculated to have died
from Covid-19.
Oceania
Australia and New Zealand have been praised for their response to the
pandemic, with both countries having seen comparatively few deaths.
In a sign of how effective their lockdown measures have been, the average
number of cases in both countries is similar to that in French Polynesia, a
sprawling network of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Australia's vaccine rollout is, however, behind schedule, with further delays
likely aer local regulators advised limiting use of the AstraZeneca jab.
Elsewhere in the region, Papua New Guinea has seen a recent spike in
infections, taking total cases there to more than 9,000.
How did coronavirus spread?
Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019 but the
outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020.
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