Coronavirus: Updated Number of Covid 19 Cases

Published By: Abolaji Daniel
Coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the world, affecting more than 178 countries and claiming more than 37,000 lives.
There are more than 780,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with the US recording more than any other country, including China. Europe also has hundreds of thousands of cases with Italy and Spain worst affected.
This series of maps and charts will help you understand what is going on.

The global pandemic continues to grow The virus is spreading rapidly in many countries. The US overtook China, where the virus originated, in terms of confirmed cases on 26 March, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University.

The true figure for the number of people with coronavirus is thought to be much higher as many of those with milder symptoms have not been tested and counted. Coronavirus global cases, 31 March 2020
. Cases Deaths

USA	164,477	3,163
Italy	101,739	11,591
Spain	94,417	8,189
China	82,276	3,309
Germany	67,051	682
Iran	44,605	2,898
France	44,550	3,024
UK	25,150	1,789
Switzerland	16,176	373
Belgium	12,775	705
Netherlands	12,595	1,039
Turkey	10,827	168
Austria	9,974	128
South Korea	9,786	162
Canada	7,448	89
Portugal	7,443	160
Israel	4,831	18
Brazil	4,681	167
Norway	4,599	36
Australia	4,557	19
Sweden	4,435	180
Czech Republic	3,002	25
Ireland	2,910	54
Denmark	2,815	90
Malaysia	2,766	43
Chile	2,449	8
Russia	2,337	17
Romania	2,245	72
Poland	2,215	32
Philippines	2,084	88
Luxembourg	1,988	22
Ecuador	1,966	62
Japan	1,953	56
Pakistan	1,865	25
Thailand	1,651	10
Saudi Arabia	1,563	10
Indonesia	1,528	136
Finland	1,418	17
South Africa	1,326	3
India	1,251	32
Greece	1,212	46
Iceland	1,135	2
Mexico	1,094	28
Panama	1,075	27
Argentina	966	25
Peru	950	24
Singapore	926	3
Dominican Republic	901	42
Croatia	867	6
Slovenia	802	15
Colombia	798	14
Serbia	785	16
Estonia	745	4
Diamond Princess cruise ship	712	10
Qatar	693	1
United Arab Emirates	664	6
Egypt	656	41
New Zealand	647	1
Iraq	630	46
Algeria	584	35
Morocco	574	33
Bahrain	567	4
Ukraine	549	13
Lithuania	533	8
Armenia	532	3
Hungary	492	16
Lebanon	463	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	411	12
Latvia	398
Bulgaria	379	8
Andorra	370	8
Slovakia	363
Tunisia	362	10
Kazakhstan	336	2
Costa Rica	330	2
North Macedonia	329	9
Taiwan	322	5
Uruguay	320	1
Azerbaijan	298	5
Moldova	298	2
Kuwait	289
Jordan	268	5
Burkina Faso	246	12
Albania	243	13
Puerto Rico	239	8
San Marino	230	25
Cyprus	230	7
Réunion	224
Vietnam	207
Cameroon	193	6
Oman	192
Senegal	175
Afghanistan	174	4
Cuba	170	4
Faroe Islands	169
Malta	169
Ivory Coast	168	1
Uzbekistan	167	2
Ghana	152	5
Belarus	152	1
Mauritius	143	3
Honduras	141	7
Nigeria	135	2
Venezuela	135	3
Sri Lanka	132	2
Brunei	129	1
Martinique	119	2
Palestinian Territories	117	1
Georgia	110
Cambodia	109
Bolivia	107	6
Kyrgyzstan	107
Kosovo	106	1
Guadeloupe	106	4
Montenegro	105	2
DR Congo	98	8
Mayotte	94	1
Trinidad and Tobago	85	3
Jersey	81	2
Rwanda	70
Guam	69	2
Gibraltar	69
Paraguay	65	3
Liechtenstein	64
Guernsey	60	1
Isle of Man	60
Kenya	59	1
Bangladesh	51	5
Aruba	50
Monaco	49	1
Madagascar	46
French Guiana	43
Jamaica	36	1
French Polynesia	36
Guatemala	36	1
Zambia	35
Barbados	34
Uganda	33
El Salvador	32
Togo	30	1
Mali	28	2
Niger	27	3
Bermuda	27
Ethiopia	25
Guinea	22
Tanzania	19	1
Congo	19
Djibouti	18
Maldives	18
New Caledonia	16
Gabon	16	1
Haiti	15
Eritrea	15
Saint Martin	15	1
Bahamas	14
Myanmar	14	1
Cayman Islands	12	1
Equatorial Guinea	12
Mongolia	12
Dominica	12
Namibia	11
Curaçao	11	1
Greenland	10
Syria	10	2
Seychelles	10
Saint Lucia	9
Laos	9
Grenada	9
Eswatini	9
Guinea-Bissau	8
Mozambique	8
Suriname	8
Guyana	8	1
Libya	8
Saint Kitts and Nevis	8
Zimbabwe	8	1
Chad	7
Antigua and Barbuda	7
Angola	7	2
Sudan	7	2
Sint Maarten	6
Cape Verde	6	1
Benin	6
Mauritania	6	1
Saint Barthelemy	6
Vatican	6
Nepal	5
Montserrat	5
Turks and Caicos Islands	5
Fiji	5
Nicaragua	4	1
Gambia	4	1
Bhutan	4
British Virgin Islands	3
Belize	3
Somalia	3
Central African Republic	3
Botswana	3
Liberia	3
MS Zaandam cruise ship	2
Anguilla	2
St Vincent and the Grenadines	1
Timor-Leste	1
Sierra Leone	1
Papua New Guinea	1
United States Virgin Islands

The virus emerged in China in December 2019 and around 3,300 people there have died from the infection - but both Italy and Spain now have much higher death tolls. The coronavirus outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March. This is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time. The WHO said it took more than three months to reach the first 100,000 confirmed cases worldwide, but only 12 days to reach 200,000, four days to reach 300,000 and three days to reach 400,000 and another five to reach 700,000.

China says it has now all but stopped the spread of the disease and the authorities have started to allow some access to Wuhan, the city in Hubei province where the outbreak began. After more than two months of isolation, people were allowed to enter the city by train - but not leave. South Korea has also seen its number of cases fall in the last couple of weeks and is hoping to reopen schools next month. Worst-affected countries like Italy, Spain and the US, are still ramping up measures to try to slow down the spread of the virus.