Covid-19 has spread around the planet, sending billions into lockdown. Find out where the virus has spread, and where it is now most deadly
Latest global Covid-19 data
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Total cases: 246.01m
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New daily cases: 492,744
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Total deaths: 4.99m
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New daily deaths: 7,797
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Total vaccinations: 7bn
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New daily vaccinations: 24.1m
Data from JHU CSSE Covid-19 Data and Our World in Data at 18.39 on 30 October 2021
Since first being recorded in late 2019 in China, the Covid-19 coronavirus has spread around the world, and been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
Dozens of countries have recorded over 1,000 deaths, while case counts now stand at well over one million in some countries. However, differences in testing mean that the number of cases may be understated for some countries.
Which countries are being hit the hardest?
Source: Johns Hopkins University Note: JHU collates this data from multiple sources whose methodologies may differ from each other. In addition, many of the sources have changed their reporting practices since the beginning of the pandemic or made revisions to their data.
How is the disease progressing around the world?
Obviously, larger countries tend to have higher numbers both of cases and of deaths. But there are many other factors in play, such as the demographic profiles of the countries; countries with ageing populations may be hit harder because the disease is more dangerous to older people.
Case rates – which show the rate of daily cases per million people in any country – show how many European countries faced new highs in infection during the winter.
Source: Johns Hopkins University. Note: JHU collates this data from multiple sources whose methodologies may differ from each other. In addition, many of the sources have changed their reporting practices since the beginning of the pandemic or made revisions to their data.
The disease has caused tens of thousands of deaths in many countries, hitting the US, Brazil, India, Mexico and the UK with particular cruelty in terms of total deaths.
And while most countries experienced the first wave of infections in a similar fashion, albeit at different times, new variants are – for now – changing the way different areas are suffering from further waves.
Source: Johns Hopkins University. Note: JHU collates this data from multiple sources whose methodologies may differ from each other. In addition, many of the sources have changed their reporting practices since the beginning of the pandemic or made revisions to their data.
Is the world rolling out the vaccine fast enough?
At last in December 2020, a number of countries began to approve vaccines and begin vaccination programmes.
Fully vaccinated people per 100.
Source: Our World in Data
Many countries rolled out their vaccine programmes in earnest through January, although concerns have been raised over the availability of vaccines in developing nations.
Which countries have vaccinated the most people?
Source: Our World in Data. Note: The figures relate to individual doses of vaccine, not people vaccinated. Since the intent is usually to give each person two doses, these figures do not represent a percentage of the population. Numbers as reported by individual countries.