COVID-19 situation update worldwide, as of week 18, updated 12 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 2022-18, 517 044 187 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 6 270 933 deaths.

Cases have been reported from:

Africa: 11 733 295 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are South Africa (3 841 388), Morocco (1 165 247), Tunisia (1 040 712), Egypt (515 645) and Libya (501 919).

Asia: 130 337 569 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are India (43 105 401), South Korea (17 564 999), Vietnam (10 678 359), Japan (8 082 469) and Iran (7 224 701).

America: 154 406 110 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are United States (81 863 725), Brazil (30 564 536), Argentina (9 100 927), Colombia (6 093 645) and Mexico (5 745 652).

Europe: 213 041 317 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are France (28 967 440), Germany (25 347 256), United Kingdom (22 127 666), Russia (18 227 666) and Italy (16 798 998).

Oceania: 7 525 191 cases; the five countries reporting most cases are Australia (6 165 105), New Zealand (992 732), French Polynesia (72 786), Fiji (64 725) and New Caledonia (60 885).

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

Deaths have been reported from:

Africa: 253 072 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are South Africa (100 523), Tunisia (28 566), Egypt (24 613), Morocco (16 070) and Ethiopia (7 510).

Asia: 1 296 988 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are India (524 093), Indonesia (156 381), Iran (141 165), Philippines (60 439) and Vietnam (43 057).

America: 2 735 168 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are United States (997 526), Brazil (664 139), Mexico (324 465), Peru (212 957) and Colombia (139 809).

Europe: 1 974 324 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Russia (376 946), United Kingdom (176 412), Italy (164 489), France (160 693) and Germany (136 746).

Oceania: 11 375 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are Australia (7 454), Fiji (862), New Zealand (812), Papua New Guinea (651) and French Polynesia (648).

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 18 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 18 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 17-18