COVID-19 situation update worldwide, as of week 12 updated 31 March 2022

Data presented on this page are collected between Monday and Wednesday for the preceding week and published on Thursdays

Disclaimer: National updates are published at different times and in different time zones. This, and the time ECDC needs to process these data, may lead to discrepancies between the national numbers and the numbers published by ECDC. Users are advised to use all data with caution and awareness of their limitations. Data are subject to retrospective corrections; corrected datasets are released as soon as processing of updated national data has been completed.

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Since 31 December 2019 and as of week 2022-12, 482 227 744 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 6 130 303 deaths.

Cases have been reported from:

Africa: 11 505 129 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are South Africa (3 713 252), Morocco (1 162 974), Tunisia (1 035 884), Egypt (505 264) and Libya (501 559).

Asia: 119 698 026 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are India (43 020 723), South Korea (12 350 428), Vietnam (9 274 849), Iran (7 151 088) and Japan (6 396 907).

America: 150 828 138 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are United States (79 954 460), Brazil (29 852 341), Argentina (9 028 611), Colombia (6 083 939) and Mexico (5 651 553).

Europe: 195 101 385 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are France (24 969 717), United Kingdom (20 691 123), Germany (20 452 133), Russia (17 783 843) and Turkey (14 800 677).

Oceania: 5 094 361 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are Australia (4 138 296), New Zealand (626 501), French Polynesia (72 058), Fiji (64 394) and New Caledonia (60 255).

Other: 705 cases have been reported from an international conveyance in Japan.

Deaths have been reported from:

Africa: 251 759 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are South Africa (99 966), Tunisia (28 323), Egypt (24 417), Morocco (16 057) and Ethiopia (7 492).

Asia: 1 270 612 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are India (521 035), Indonesia (154 774), Iran (140 021), Philippines (59 015) and Vietnam (42 358).

America: 2 688 711 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are United States (976 704), Brazil (658 956), Mexico (322 761), Peru (212 157) and Colombia (139 585).

Europe: 1 910 086 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Russia (367 686), United Kingdom (164 454), Italy (158 782), France (155 498) and Germany (128 479).

Oceania: 9 129 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Australia (5 897), Fiji (834), French Polynesia (646), Papua New Guinea (640) and Guam (340).

Other: 6 deaths have been reported from an international conveyance in Japan.

Epidemiological curves

These histograms are based on the available information at the time of publication, originating from several sources. Data completeness depends on the availability of information from the affected areas. All data should be interpreted with caution as the outbreak is evolving rapidly. In addition, due to the unavailability of date-of-onset data and different testing policies per country, this figure might not be reflective of the evolution of the epidemic.

Distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide, as of week 12 2022

Cases reported in accordance with the applied case definition and testing strategies in the affected countries.

Please be aware that due to the end-of-year-festivities and ECDC holidays, the data collection process was not carried out between 23 December 2021 and 2 January 2022, both inclusive. Although these cases have been logged in the datafiles available on the ECDC website, cases for week 2022-51 and 2022-52 are not displayed in the epidemiological curve above.

Distribution of COVID-19 deaths, worldwide, as of week 12 2022

Please be aware that due to the end-of-year-festivities and ECDC holidays, the data collection process was not carried out between 23 December 2021 and 2 January 2022, both inclusive. Although these cases have been logged in the datafiles available on the ECDC website, cases for week 2022-51 and 2022-52 are not displayed in the epidemiological curve above.

Geographic distribution of COVID-19

14-day COVID-19 case notification rate per 100 000, weeks 11-12