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Within three months, the virus had spread throughout the continent, as Lesotho, the last African sovereign state to have remained free of the virus, reported a case on 13 May 2020. [37] [38] By 26 May, it appeared that most African countries were experiencing community transmission, although testing capacity was limited. [39]
On 15 April 2021, Cambodia's government enacted a strict stay-at-home order across the entirety of Phnom Penh and Ta Khmau in response to the country's largest COVID-19 outbreak of the pandemic. Certain districts were declared as "red zones", banning people from leaving their homes except for medical emergencies.
The pandemic has resulted in the largest amount of shutdowns/lockdowns worldwide at the same time in history. [ citation needed ] By 26 March, 1.7 billion people worldwide were under some form of lockdown, [ 438 ] which increased to 3.9 billion people by the first week of April — more than half of the world's population .
The pandemic shook the world's economy, with especially severe economic damage in the United States, Europe and Latin America. [ 434 ] [ 435 ] A consensus report by American intelligence agencies in April 2021 concluded, "Efforts to contain and manage the virus have reinforced nationalist trends globally, as some states turned inward to protect ...
Of the 248 recognized countries and territories around the world, 229 have reported cases of COVID-19 [5]. For more international statistics in table and map form, see COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory. 108 countries and territories have more confirmed cases than the People's Republic of China, the country where the outbreak began.
The COVID-19 pandemic was a pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); the outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern from 30 January 2020 to 5 May 2023, and recognized as a pandemic by ...
On 25 March, the World Bank and IMF call for a global debt payment suspension in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. [110] On 5 June, the World Bank stated in its latest Global Economic Prospects report.that the COVID-19 pandemic would shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent in 2020, the deepest recession since World War Two, triggering a ...
English: Map of the COVID-19 verified number of infected per capita as of 20 November 2022.In the latest versions of the map there is a color bar legend. See the file history farther down for the latest upload date from the source.