COVID-19 situation update worldwide, as of week 19, updated 19 May 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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Summary: Since 31 December 2019 and as of week 2022-19, 519 467 357 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 6 277 833 deaths.

Cases have been reported from:

Africa: 11 780 000 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are South Africa (3 879 434), Morocco (1 165 795), Tunisia (1 041 789), Egypt (515 645) and Libya (501 954).

Asia: 131 385 054 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are India (43 123 801), South Korea (17 795 357), Vietnam (10 696 630), Japan (8 355 303) and Iran (7 228 051).

America: 155 483 297 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are United States (82 613 620), Brazil (30 688 390), Argentina (9 134 182), Colombia (6 095 316) and Mexico (5 752 441).

Europe: 212 902 190 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are France (29 245 171), Germany (24 535 087), United Kingdom (22 203 799), Russia (18 264 836) and Italy (17 057 873).

Oceania: 7 916 111 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are Australia (6 497 556), New Zealand (1 046 670), French Polynesia (72 836), Fiji (64 812) and New Caledonia (61 185).

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

Deaths have been reported from:

Africa: 253 457 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are South Africa (100 744), Tunisia (28 628), Egypt (24 690), Morocco (16 071) and Ethiopia (7 510).

Asia: 1 298 593 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are India (524 241), Indonesia (156 458), Iran (141 224), Philippines (60 455) and Vietnam (43 065).

America: 2 739 410 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are United States (999 842), Brazil (664 918), Mexico (324 617), Peru (213 040) and Colombia (139 821).

Europe: 1 974 597 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Russia (377 759), United Kingdom (177 410), Italy (165 244), France (161 336) and Germany (134 578).

Oceania: 11 770 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Australia (7 721), New Zealand (929), Fiji (862), Papua New Guinea (651) and French Polynesia (649).

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 19 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 19 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 18-19