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The figures presented are based on reported cases and deaths. While in several high-income countries the ratio of total estimated cases and deaths to reported cases and deaths is low and close to 1, for some countries it may be more than 10 [7] or even more than 100. [8] Implementation of COVID-19 surveillance methods varies widely. [9]
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 ...
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 17 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 ...
A study that had been conducted between December 2020 and January 2021 had suggested that around 15% of Indonesia's population had already contracted COVID-19, much more than the official percentage of only 0.4% at the time, [41] while a survey conducted in 15–31 March 2021 found that 44.5% of Jakarta's population of 10.6 million people had ...
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Qatar on 27 February 2020. [2] As of the 12th of September 2022, a total of 3,904,273 people have been tested in the country. [3]
Contact tracing measures SafeEntry and TraceTogether were implemented to identify and quarantine close contacts of positive cases. The last record of COVID-19 cases was on 4 June 2023, which was at 2,481,404 confirmed cases, 2,456,295 recoveries and 1,727 deaths, [274] with a case fatality rate of 0.08%, one of the lowest in the world. [275]
In the 18 months following containment of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, two COVID-19 deaths were recorded. [512] [513] In December 2022, the Chinese government ended its zero-COVID policy and mass testing following protests across the country. [495] In 2020 and 2021, China was the largest exporter of COVID-19 critical medical products.