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This is a general overview and status of places affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei in China in December 2019. It ...
* EU countries and Britain granted 227.97 billion euros ($228 billion) in state aid in 2020 to support companies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Poland and Greece topping the list, the European ...
At the beginning of March 2022, South Korea joined the list of 30 most affected countries on the first anniversary of the day when it overtook China in terms of the number of cases. As of 3 February 2025, France is the most affected country in Europe , while Germany is the second most affected country and the United Kingdom the third most ...
Most countries and territories affected with COVID-19 introduced and enforced some form of lockdown. However, only a few exceptions included Japan , South Korea and Taiwan , which rapidly and consistently implemented highly organized mass testing , contact tracing , public messaging and selective quarantining to identify and isolate outbreaks.
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022 ...
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [ 14 ] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu .
Illustration showing how COVID-19 spreads and the impact of isolation on it. National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been varied, and have included containment measures such as lockdowns, quarantines, and curfews. As of 11 February 2025, 777,348,321 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, resulting in 7,086,620 reported deaths. [1]
This article contains the number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 reported by each country and territory to the World Health Organization in January 2020 and published in the latter's daily 'situation reports'. [1] For other months see COVID-19 pandemic cases. There is also a column there listing the date of the first case for each country.