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Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with almost 90 million confirmed cases in 190 countries and nearly two million deaths.

The virus is surging in many regions and countries that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are also seeing infections rise again.

Note: The recent jump and fall in the 56-day trend for global cases was caused by Turkey announcing 800,000 previously unreported infections on 10 December. Recent numbers may also be affected by incomplete data over the Christmas period.

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Zoom to                  The world                 Africa                 North America                 Latin America & Caribbean                 Asia                 Europe                 Middle East                 Oceania             Show88,110,890cases1,899,647deaths21,500,000Circles show number of confirmed coronavirus cases per country.

Source: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies

Figures last updated 8 January 2021, 10:16 GMT

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.

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*Deaths per 100,000 peopleFilter:                 The world                 Africa                 North America                 Latin America & Caribbean                 Asia                 Europe                 Middle East                 Oceania             

Country	Deaths	Death rate*	Total Cases	New Cases0101001k10k**
US	363,581	111.2	21,490,151	27 JAN05 JAN
Brazil	200,498	95.7	7,961,673
India	150,570	11.1	10,413,417
Mexico	131,031	103.8	1,493,569
UK	78,508	116.9	2,889,419
Italy	77,291	127.5	2,220,361
France	66,565	102.4	2,705,618
Russia	60,067	41.2	3,321,163
Iran	55,933	68.4	1,268,263
Spain	51,675	110.7	2,024,904
Colombia	45,067	90.7	1,737,347
Argentina	44,122	99.5	1,690,006
Germany	38,988	46.9	1,886,561
Peru	37,925	118.6	1,022,018
South Africa	31,809	55.0	1,170,590
Poland	30,241	79.7	1,356,882
Indonesia	23,520	8.8	797,723
Turkey	22,264	27.0	2,296,102
Ukraine	20,432	46.2	1,139,800
Belgium	19,936	173.6	658,655
Chile	16,913	90.3	629,176
Canada	16,595	44.8	639,693
Romania	16,410	84.1	658,958
Ecuador	14,158	82.9	218,385
Iraq	12,869	33.5	600,755
Czech Republic	12,800	120.0	809,601
Netherlands	12,087	70.9	850,986
Pakistan	10,558	5.0	497,510
Hungary	10,440	107.5	337,743
Philippines	9,364	8.8	483,852
Bolivia	9,304	82.0	168,891
Sweden	9,262	92.9	482,284
Switzerland	8,178	95.9	474,764
Egypt	8,029	8.2	146,809
Bulgaria	8,017	113.7	207,259
Bangladesh	7,718	4.8	519,905
Morocco	7,645	21.2	448,678
Portugal	7,472	72.9	456,533
Austria	6,568	73.9	374,730
Saudi Arabia	6,278	18.6	363,485
Greece	5,146	48.9	142,777
Tunisia	5,052	43.7	152,254
Guatemala	4,928	28.6	141,074
China	4,788	0.3	96,489
Panama	4,321	103.5	269,091
Croatia	4,266	102.6	216,848
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,211	126.7	113,392
Jordan	3,968	39.8	304,071
Japan	3,698	2.9	271,749
Israel	3,587	42.8	474,018
Serbia	3,479	49.8	353,907
Honduras	3,200	33.4	125,118
Moldova	3,106	76.7	148,294
Slovenia	2,922	140.6	134,545
Armenia	2,908	98.5	161,415
Azerbaijan	2,845	28.6	222,885
Myanmar	2,799	5.2	128,772
Algeria	2,792	6.6	101,382
Kazakhstan	2,781	15.2	206,840
Georgia	2,728	68.1	236,028
Slovakia	2,717	49.8	198,184
North Macedonia	2,581	123.9	85,494
Dominican Republic	2,423	22.8	177,493
Paraguay	2,352	33.8	112,856
Ireland	2,307	47.9	127,657
Costa Rica	2,286	45.7	176,407
Afghanistan	2,253	6.1	53,207
Lithuania	2,119	75.6	156,539
Ethiopia	1,966	1.8	127,227
Nepal	1,903	6.8	263,605
Kenya	1,702	3.3	97,733
Lebanon	1,566	22.8	204,699
Libya	1,558	23.3	103,515
Palestinian Territories	1,536	31.6	145,252
Oman	1,505	31.2	130,070
Belarus	1,498	15.8	208,601
Denmark	1,487	25.9	176,837
Sudan	1,468	3.5	23,316
El Salvador	1,398	21.8	48,255
Kyrgyzstan	1,365	21.7	81,991
Kosovo	1,363	73.9	52,943
Nigeria	1,330	0.7	95,934
Albania	1,223	42.4	61,705
South Korea	1,081	2.1	67,358
Venezuela	1,052	3.6	115,322
Kuwait	938	22.7	152,978
Australia	909	3.7	28,571
Latvia	790	41.0	46,545
Syria	755	4.5	12,084
Montenegro	712	113.4	51,160
United Arab Emirates	694	7.2	221,754
Uzbekistan	616	1.9	77,485
DR Congo	610	0.7	18,738
Yemen	610	2.1	2,104
Finland	584	10.6	37,772
Malaysia	521	1.7	128,465
Luxembourg	521	86.2	47,592
Norway	467	8.7	53,792
Cameroon	448	1.8	26,848
Zimbabwe	446	3.1	18,675
Senegal	438	2.8	20,376
Zambia	423	2.4	24,297
Angola	413	1.3	17,974
Mauritania	378	8.6	15,214
Bahrain	353	22.5	94,633
Ghana	336	1.1	55,461
Jamaica	306	10.4	13,368
Uganda	297	0.7	37,074
Mali	286	1.5	7,427
Estonia	270	20.4	32,537
Eswatini	268	23.6	10,773
Belize	267	69.7	11,152
Madagascar	262	1.0	17,767
Qatar	245	8.8	145,271
Namibia	240	9.8	26,682
Haiti	236	2.1	10,203
Uruguay	231	6.7	23,807
Malta	228	51.9	13,776
Sri Lanka	222	1.0	46,780
Malawi	203	1.1	7,611
Mozambique	176	0.6	19,961
Bahamas	175	45.4	7,959
Guyana	167	21.4	6,469
Nicaragua	166	2.6	6,097
Guadeloupe	155	38.8	8,702
Cuba	148	1.3	13,479
Cyprus	140	11.8	26,208
Ivory Coast	138	0.6	23,173
Suriname	130	22.6	6,750
Somalia	130	0.9	4,726
Trinidad and Tobago	127	9.1	7,210
Gambia	125	5.5	3,838
French Polynesia	121	43.6	17,195
Niger	119	0.5	3,706
Cape Verde	113	20.8	12,146
Rwanda	113	0.9	9,225
Congo	108	2.1	7,127
Chad	105	0.7	2,358
Tajikistan	90	1.0	13,305
Burkina Faso	89	0.5	7,713
Equatorial Guinea	86	6.6	5,286
Andorra	84	109.1	8,348
Liberia	83	1.7	1,779
Guinea	81	0.7	13,904
Sierra Leone	77	1.0	2,757
Lesotho	76	3.6	4,351
French Guiana	73	25.8	13,632
Togo	72	0.9	3,845
Thailand	67	0.1	9,841
Channel Islands	67	39.3	3,210
Gabon	66	3.1	9,641
San Marino	64	189.4	2,583
Central African Republic	63	1.4	4,969
South Sudan	63	0.6	3,589
Djibouti	61	6.4	5,857
Mayotte	56	21.6	6,045
Aruba	50	47.2	5,883
Maldives	49	9.5	13,988
Botswana	48	2.1	16,050
Liechtenstein	48	126.6	2,309
Guinea-Bissau	45	2.4	2,455
Benin	44	0.4	3,304
Martinique	43	11.4	6,117
Réunion	42	4.8	9,173
Vietnam	35	0.0	1,509
Singapore	29	0.5	58,836
Iceland	29	8.6	5,845
Saint Martin	27	72.5	1,531
New Zealand	25	0.5	2,188
Isle of Man	25	29.7	390
Tanzania	21	0.0	509
Curaçao	18	11.1	4,405
Sao Tome and Principe	17	8.1	1,035
Comoros	16	1.9	1,050
Diamond Princess cruise ship	13		712
Gibraltar	11	32.6	2,928
Bermuda	11	17.5	636
Mauritius	10	0.8	539
Papua New Guinea	9	0.1	799
Taiwan	7	0.0	822
Barbados	7	2.4	780
Turks and Caicos Islands	6	15.9	956
Saint Lucia	5	2.7	383
Antigua and Barbuda	5	5.2	163
Eritrea	3	0.1	1,445
Monaco	3	7.8	1,018
Brunei	3	0.7	173
Mongolia	2	0.1	1,395
Burundi	2	0.0	885
Cayman Islands	2	3.1	359
Fiji	2	0.2	53
MS Zaandam cruise ship	2		9
Faroe Islands	1	2.1	643
Saint Barthelemy	1	10.2	206
British Virgin Islands	1	3.4	97
Montserrat	1	20.0	13
Bhutan	0	0.0	767
Cambodia	0	0.0	386
Seychelles	0	0.0	313
St Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0.0	149
Grenada	0	0.0	127
Dominica	0	0.0	105
Timor-Leste	0	0.0	49
Laos	0	0.0	41
New Caledonia	0	0.0	40
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0.0	33
Falkland Islands	0	0.0	29
Greenland	0	0.0	27
Vatican	0	0.0	27
Solomon Islands	0	0.0	17
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0.0	16
Anguilla	0	0.0	15
Marshall Islands	0	0.0	4
Samoa	0	0.0	2
Vanuatu	0	0.0	1

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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: 8 January 2021, 10:16 GMT

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.

Coronavirus cases have surged over the past few months in several regions of the world and large numbers of new infections are being reported daily.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the virus will continue to spread rapidly in the coming months.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We’re in a race to prevent infections, bring cases down, protect health systems and save lives while rolling out highly effective and safe vaccines to high-risk populations.”

Several coronavirus vaccines have now been approved for use, either by individual countries, or blocs such the EU and WHO. But only a number of countries have started vaccinating their populations.

Supply and distribution of the vaccine is an issue. Some countries have secured more than their populations actually need, while lower-income countries may have to rely on the global vaccine plan known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure an equitable distribution of vaccines.

The comparative figures on vaccination are put together by Our World in Data, which is a collaboration between Oxford University and an educational charity. They measure the number of people who have received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Most of the vaccines approved for use so far rely on two doses, given more than a week apart.

The US has administered almost six million doses, China 4.5 million and Israel around 1.7 million. Most countries are giving priority to the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable. In Europe, Germany and Italy have administered around 400,000 doses each since the EU approved the Pfizer vaccine.

US has most cases and deaths

The US has recorded more than 20 million cases and more than 365,000 deaths from coronavirus, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases have been at record levels since early November and there are more than 125,000 people in hospital, double the number in either of the two previous waves.

Cases rise in Europe

Many European countries saw a resurgence in cases during the autumn, and most brought back lockdowns and other restrictions to curb infections.

However the UK is experiencing another steep rise in cases driven by a new, more easily spread, variant of the disease.

• What restrictions are in place in Europe?

Where else has seen high cases?

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak, but the number of cases there was relatively low until India saw a surge in infections over the summer.

India has recorded more than 10 million cases, the second-highest official total in the world after the US, but the daily number has been falling since September.

In Latin America, Brazil has about eight million confirmed cases and the world’s second highest death toll. The country is currently seeing a second surge in infections.

Africa has recorded nearly three million cases, but the true extent of the pandemic there is not known as testing rates are low.

Concern is growing about a South African variant of the disease which is thought to share some similarities with the new UK strain, including being more easily transmissible.

South Africa, with more than one million cases and more than 30,000 deaths, is the worst affected country on the continent.

Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria are the only other African countries to officially record more than 100,000 cases.

• Coronavirus in Africa tracker

How did coronavirus spread?

The virus, which causes the respiratory infection Covid-19, was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

The outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020 and declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March.

A pandemic is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/1539110/embed?auto=1

Governments across the world have been forced to limit public movement and close businesses and venues in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. This has had a devastating impact on the global economy.

In November, the International Monetary Fund said that while global economic activity had picked up over the summer there were “signs that the recovery may be losing momentum”. It also warned that the crisis was “likely to leave deep, unequal scars”.

Recent data from UN Women suggested the pandemic could also wipe out 25 years of increasing gender equality.