COVID-19 Coronavirus 2019-nCov Statistics Update (Live): 6,055,950 Cases and 367,304 Deaths

Coronavirus Cases: 6,055,950

of which 53,711 in severe condition

Deaths: 367,304

Recovered: 2,680,975

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories

ACTIVE CASES

3,007,671 Currently Infected Patients

2,953,960 (98%) in Mild Condition

53,711 (2%) Serious or Critical

CLOSED CASES

3,048,279 Cases which had an outcome

2,680,975 (88%) Recovered / Discharged

367,304 (12%) Deaths

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Confirmed Coronavirus Cases and Deaths by Country and Territory

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances: the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan, and the Holland America's MS Zaandam cruise ship. The day is reset after midnight UTC+7. The list of countries and territories and their continental regional classification is based on the Countrycodex.

Total report update (live)

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Active Cases	Total Recovered	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases /1M pop	Deaths /1M pop	Total Tests	Tests /1M pop
1	USA	1,793,653	+17,887 +1%	104,547	+873 +0.8%	1,169,495	519,611	17,204	5,422	316	16,811,898	50,817
2	Brazil	468,338	+29,526 +6.7%	27,944	+1,180 +4.4%	247,213	193,181	8,318	2,205	132	930,013	4,378
3	Russia	396,575	+8,952 +2.3%	4,555	+181 +4.1%	224,551	167,469	2,300	2,718	31	10,316,200	70,693
4	Spain	285,644		27,121		61,565	196,958	617	6,110	580	3,556,567	76,071
5	UK	271,222		38,161				1,559	3,997	562	4,043,686	59,593
6	Italy	232,248		33,229		46,175	152,844	475	3,841	550	3,755,279	62,102
7	France	186,835		28,714		90,318	67,803	1,361	2,863	440	1,384,633	21,217
8	Germany	183,019	+308 +0.2%	8,594	+17 +0.2%	9,525	164,900	729	2,185	103	3,952,971	47,194
9	India	174,355	+1,786 +1%	4,982	+11 +0.2%	86,569	82,804	8,944	126	4	3,611,599	2,619
10	Turkey	162,120		4,489		31,668	125,963	662	1,924	53	1,964,364	23,314
11	Iran	148,950	+2,282 +1.6%	7,734	+57 +0.7%	24,389	116,827	2,533	1,775	92	896,571	10,687
12	Peru	148,285	+6,506 +4.6%	4,230	+131 +3.2%	81,264	62,791	926	4,503	128	963,617	29,263
13	Chile	90,638		944		51,096	38,598	1,350	4,745	49	546,506	28,610
14	Canada	89,418	+906 +1%	6,979	+102 +1.5%	34,921	47,518	1,618	2,371	185	1,596,449	42,332
15	Mexico	84,627	+3,227 +4%	9,415	+371 +4.1%	15,602	59,610	378	657	73	244,858	1,901
16	China	82,999	+4 +0%	4,634		63	78,302	3	58	3
17	Saudi Arabia	81,766		458		24,295	57,013	384	2,352	13	787,465	22,652
18	Pakistan	66,457	+2,429 +3.8%	1,395	+78 +5.9%	40,931	24,131	111	301	6	532,037	2,413
19	Belgium	58,186	+125 +0.2%	9,453	+23 +0.2%	32,964	15,769	173	5,022	816	848,065	73,202
20	Qatar	55,262	+2,355 +4.5%	36		29,387	25,839	217	19,211	13	217,988	75,782
21	Netherlands	46,126		5,931				180	2,692	346	348,256	20,328
22	Bangladesh	44,608	+1,764 +4.1%	610	+28 +4.8%	34,623	9,375	1	271	4	297,054	1,805
23	Belarus	40,764		224		23,150	17,390	92	4,314	24	512,418	54,227
24	Ecuador	38,571	+100 +0.3%	3,334	+21 +0.6%	16,047	19,190	220	2,189	189	113,808	6,460
25	Sweden	36,476		4,350		27,155	4,971	289	3,614	431	238,800	23,658
26	Singapore	34,366	+506 +1.5%	23		14,712	19,631	8	5,878	4	334,691	57,249
27	UAE	33,170		260		15,813	17,097	1	3,357	26	2,110,493	213,622
28	Portugal	31,946		1,383		11,652	18,911	66	3,132	136	795,838	78,030
29	Switzerland	30,845	+17 +0.1%	1,919		526	28,400	27	3,566	222	394,717	45,637
30	South Africa	29,240	+1,837 +6.7%	611	+34 +5.9%	13,536	15,093	128	494	10	680,175	11,482
31	Colombia	26,688	+1,322 +5.2%	853	+31 +3.8%	18,922	6,913	136	525	17	306,411	6,028
32	Kuwait	26,192	+1,008 +4%	205	+11 +5.7%	15,831	10,156	206	6,142	48	290,013	68,002
33	Indonesia	25,773	+557 +2.2%	1,573	+53 +3.5%	17,185	7,015		94	6	311,906	1,141
34	Ireland	24,876	+35 +0.1%	1,645	+6 +0.4%	1,142	22,089	47	5,043	333	325,795	66,047
35	Poland	23,376	+221 +1%	1,051		11,309	11,016	160	618	28	873,456	23,077
36	Ukraine	23,204	+393 +1.7%	696	+17 +2.5%	13,197	9,311	273	530	16	348,279	7,960
37	Egypt	22,082	+1,289 +6.2%	879	+34 +4%	15,692	5,511	41	216	9	135,000	1,322
38	Romania	19,133	+151 +0.8%	1,253	+5 +0.4%	4,834	13,046	160	994	65	425,819	22,123
39	Israel	17,008	+121 +0.7%	284		1,948	14,776	39	1,849	31	567,429	61,693
40	Japan	16,719	+36 +0.2%	874	+7 +0.8%	1,591	14,254	131	132	7	284,763	2,251
41	Austria	16,685	+30 +0.2%	668		497	15,520	23	1,853	74	442,143	49,117
42	Philippines	16,634		942		11,972	3,720	81	152	9	332,815	3,041
43	Dominican Republic	16,531		488		6,777	9,266	106	1,525	45	76,930	7,098
44	Argentina	15,419	+717 +4.9%	520	+10 +2%	10,111	4,788	259	341	12	150,486	3,332
45	Afghanistan	14,525	+866 +6.3%	249	+3 +1.2%	12,973	1,303	19	374	6	37,348	961
46	Panama	12,531	+400 +3.3%	326	+6 +1.9%	4,665	7,540	79	2,908	76	63,202	14,669
47	Denmark	11,593		568		785	10,240	18	2,002	98	606,574	104,754
48	S. Korea	11,441	+39 +0.3%	269		774	10,398	15	223	5	902,901	17,612
49	Serbia	11,354		242		4,588	6,524	8	1,299	28	239,234	27,371
50	Bahrain	10,740	+388 +3.7%	15		4,914	5,811	10	6,335	9	308,698	182,074
51	Oman	10,423	+603 +6.1%	42	+2 +5%	7,985	2,396	31	2,046	8	72,000	14,135
52	Kazakhstan	10,382	+450 +4.5%	37		5,288	5,057	62	554	2	788,289	42,028
53	Nigeria	9,302	+387 +4.3%	261	+2 +0.8%	6,344	2,697	7	45	1	58,726	286
54	Czech Republic	9,200	+20 +0.2%	319		2,379	6,502	19	859	30	436,372	40,755
55	Algeria	9,134		638		3,074	5,422	34	209	15
56	Armenia	8,927	+251 +2.9%	127	+7 +5.8%	5,483	3,317	10	3,013	43	57,081	19,266
57	Bolivia	8,731	+344 +4.1%	300	+7 +2.4%	7,682	749	3	749	26	22,294	1,912
58	Norway	8,425	+3 +0%	236		462	7,727	8	1,555	44	245,352	45,289
59	Moldova	7,896		289	+1 +0.3%	3,152	4,455	256	1,957	72	40,565	10,054
60	Malaysia	7,762	+30 +0.4%	115		1,317	6,330	9	240	4	546,368	16,901
61	Morocco	7,740	+43 +0.6%	203	+1 +0.5%	2,160	5,377	1	210	6	196,469	5,329
62	Ghana	7,616		34		5,161	2,421	17	246	1	208,328	6,718
63	Australia	7,185	+12 +0.2%	103		476	6,606	4	282	4	1,428,538	56,080
64	Finland	6,826	+50 +0.7%	316	+2 +0.6%	1,010	5,500	11	1,232	57	182,700	32,978
65	Iraq	5,873		185		2,644	3,044	45	146	5	211,485	5,269
66	Cameroon	5,436		177	+2 +1.1%	1,933	3,326	28	205	7
67	Azerbaijan	4,989		58		1,806	3,125	42	492	6	284,669	28,099
68	Honduras	4,886	+134 +2.8%	199	+3 +1.5%	4,159	528	13	494	20	14,790	1,495
69	Guatemala	4,607	+259 +6%	90	+10 +12.5%	3,869	648	5	258	5	31,427	1,757
70	Sudan	4,521		233		3,472	816		103	5	401	9
71	Luxembourg	4,012		110		87	3,815	4	6,419	176	72,996	116,788
72	Hungary	3,867	+26 +0.7%	524	+7 +1.4%	1,201	2,142	22	400	54	183,562	18,998
73	Tajikistan	3,686		47		1,870	1,769		387	5
74	Guinea	3,656	+103 +2.9%	22		1,634	2,000	24	279	2	14,407	1,100
75	Senegal	3,535	+106 +3.1%	42	+1 +2.4%	1,732	1,761	14	212	3	40,735	2,439
76	Uzbekistan	3,513	+45 +1.3%	14		771	2,728	7	105	0.4	460,000	13,762
77	Thailand	3,077	+1 +0%	57		59	2,961	59	44	0.8	375,453	5,380
78	DRC	2,966	+133 +4.7%	69		2,469	428		33	0.8
79	Djibouti	2,914		20		1,653	1,241		2,953	20	25,257	25,598
80	Greece	2,909		175		1,360	1,374	16	279	17	174,844	16,768
81	Ivory Coast	2,750	+109 +4.1%	32		1,348	1,370		105	1	26,548	1,009
82	Gabon	2,613	+182 +7.5%	15	+1 +7.1%	1,889	709	15	1,177	7	13,833	6,229
83	Bulgaria	2,499	+14 +0.6%	139	+3 +2.2%	1,296	1,064	22	359	20	80,742	11,613
84	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,494	+9 +0.4%	153		510	1,831	4	760	47	64,623	19,687
85	El Salvador	2,395	+117 +5.1%	44	+2 +4.8%	1,325	1,026	45	369	7	86,972	13,415
86	Croatia	2,245		103		83	2,059	4	547	25	65,509	15,949
87	North Macedonia	2,129		126		487	1,516	21	1,022	60	27,684	13,288
88	Cuba	2,005		82		163	1,760	3	177	7	101,108	8,926
89	Estonia	1,865	+6 +0.3%	67		176	1,622		1,406	51	82,747	62,382
90	Somalia	1,828		72		1,446	310	2	115	5
91	Iceland	1,805		10		1	1,794		5,292	29	60,491	177,367
92	Kenya	1,745		62		1,245	438	7	33	1	74,003	1,379
93	Kyrgyzstan	1,722	+60 +3.6%	16		593	1,113	4	264	2	109,521	16,813
94	Mayotte	1,699		21		293	1,385	9	6,242	77	5,200	19,105
95	Lithuania	1,670	+8 +0.5%	70	+2 +2.9%	371	1,229	17	613	26	299,428	109,873
96	Maldives	1,633	+120 +7.9%	5		1,398	230	9	3,026	9	11,775	21,820
97	Haiti	1,584	+141 +9.8%	35		1,527	22		139	3	4,106	360
98	Sri Lanka	1,561	+13 +0.8%	10		770	781	1	73	0.5	62,208	2,906
99	Slovakia	1,521	+1 +0.1%	28		137	1,356		279	5	170,995	31,321
100	New Zealand	1,504		22		1	1,481		301	4	278,872	55,751
101	Slovenia	1,473		108		8	1,357	2	709	52	79,897	38,432
102	Nepal	1,401	+189 +15.6%	6		1,176	219		48	0.2	173,784	5,975
103	Venezuela	1,370	+43 +3.2%	14	+3 +27.3%	1,054	302	3	48	0.5	961,899	33,819
104	Equatorial Guinea	1,306		12		1,094	200		934	9	854	611
105	Guinea-Bissau	1,256	+61 +5.1%	8		1,206	42		640	4	1,500	764
106	Mali	1,226		73		484	669		61	4	3,483	172
107	Lebanon	1,172		26		441	705	6	172	4	80,239	11,752
108	Albania	1,122	+23 +2.1%	33		232	857	5	390	11	14,498	5,037
109	Hong Kong	1,083	+3 +0.3%	4		43	1,036	1	145	0.5	202,930	27,088
110	Tunisia	1,076	+5 +0.5%	48		78	950	2	91	4	51,171	4,334
111	Latvia	1,065	+1 +0.1%	24		296	745	3	564	13	108,174	57,300
112	Ethiopia	1,063	+95 +9.8%	8		847	208	5	9	0.07	106,615	930
113	Zambia	1,057		7		271	779	1	58	0.4	24,275	1,324
114	Costa Rica	1,022	+22 +2.2%	10		359	653	2	201	2	25,503	5,010
115	South Sudan	994		10		978	6		89	0.9	3,356	300
116	Niger	955		64		78	813		40	3	6,020	250
117	Cyprus	942	+1 +0.1%	17		141	784	4	781	14	111,270	92,219
118	Paraguay	917	+17 +1.9%	11		493	413	1	129	2	28,337	3,977
119	CAR	874	+119 +15.8%	1		850	23		181	0.2	14,557	3,019
120	Burkina Faso	847		53		74	720		41	3
121	Sierra Leone	829		45		398	386		104	6
122	Uruguay	816	+5 +0.6%	22		114	680	6	235	6	42,624	12,274
123	Andorra	764		51		29	684	4	9,889	660	3,750	48,541
124	Chad	759	+33 +4.5%	65		250	444		46	4
125	Nicaragua	759		35		354	370		115	5
126	Madagascar	758	+60 +8.6%	6	+1 +20%	587	165	8	27	0.2	10,249	371
127	Georgia	757	+11 +1.5%	12		145	600	6	190	3	53,618	13,439
128	Jordan	730		9		214	507	5	72	0.9	180,119	17,669
129	Diamond Princess	712		13		48	651	4
130	San Marino	671		42		272	357	1	19,779	1,238	4,466	131,643
131	Malta	618	+2 +0.3%	9	+1 +12.5%	84	525	1	1,400	20	68,038	154,127
132	Jamaica	575	+6 +1.1%	9		277	289	2	194	3	12,078	4,080
133	Congo	571		19		391	161		104	3
134	Channel Islands	560		45		3	512		3,224	259	10,255	59,032
135	Tanzania	509		21		305	183	7	9	0.4
136	Reunion	470		1		58	411	1	525	1	17,200	19,223
137	Sao Tome and Principe	463	+5 +1.1%	12		383	68		2,116	55	175	800
138	French Guiana	450	+14 +3.2%	1		277	172	2	1,510	3
139	Palestine	447	+1 +0.2%	3		76	368		88	0.6	44,876	8,817
140	Taiwan	442		7		14	421		19	0.3	71,909	3,020
141	Togo	428	+6 +1.4%	13		213	202		52	2	19,162	2,320
142	Mauritania	423	+77 +22.3%	20	+1 +5.3%	382	21		91	4	2,583	557
143	Cabo Verde	405	+15 +3.8%	4		246	155		729	7	1,307	2,353
144	Rwanda	355	+6 +1.7%			108	247		27		65,608	5,078
145	Isle of Man	336		24		3	309		3,953	282	4,756	55,957
146	Mauritius	335		10		3	322		263	8	114,236	89,837
147	Uganda	329	+12 +3.8%			257	72		7		93,062	2,041
148	Vietnam	328	+1 +0.3%			49	279	1	3		275,000	2,827
149	Montenegro	324		9			315		516	14	10,167	16,188
150	Yemen	283		65		207	11		10	2	120	4
151	Eswatini	279		2		109	168		241	2	4,994	4,309
152	Malawi	273	+70 +34.5%	4		227	42	1	14	0.2	3,372	177
153	Liberia	273		27		100	146		54	5
154	Mozambique	234		2		148	84		8	0.06	10,001	321
155	Myanmar	224	+17 +8.2%	6		88	130		4	0.1	23,951	440
156	Benin	224		3		85	136		19	0.2	30,817	2,549
157	Martinique	200	+3 +1.5%	14		88	98		533	37
158	Faroe Islands	187					187		3,828		9,568	195,877
159	Mongolia	179				135	44	10	55		13,641	4,167
160	Guadeloupe	162	+1 +0.6%	14		10	138	1	405	35	4,137	10,339
161	Gibraltar	161				13	148		4,779		7,315	217,114
162	Zimbabwe	160	+11 +7.4%	4		127	29		11	0.3	46,613	3,140
163	Guyana	150		11		72	67	2	191	14	1,586	2,017
164	Brunei	141		2		1	138	1	323	5	19,130	43,765
165	Cayman Islands	141	+1 +0.7%	1		72	68		2,148	15	11,139	169,667
166	Bermuda	140		9		39	92	2	2,247	144	6,941	111,418
167	Cambodia	125	+1 +0.8%			2	123	1	7		19,842	1,188
168	Syria	122		4		75	43		7	0.2
169	Libya	118	+13 +12.4%	5		72	41		17	0.7	5,154	751
170	Trinidad and Tobago	116		8			108		83	6	3,122	2,231
171	Bahamas	102	+1 +1%	11		43	48	1	260	28	2,087	5,312
172	Aruba	101		3			98		946	28	2,117	19,836
173	Monaco	98		4		4	90	2	2,499	102
174	Barbados	92		7		9	76	1	320	24	5,272	18,347
175	Comoros	87		2		61	24		100	2
176	Liechtenstein	82		1		26	55		2,151	26	900	23,610
177	Angola	81	+7 +9.5%	4		59	18		2	0.1	10,000	305
178	Sint Maarten	77		15		2	60	1	1,798	350	450	10,506
179	French Polynesia	60					60		214		4,006	14,268
180	Macao	45					45		69
181	Burundi	42		1		21	20		4	0.08	284	24
182	Saint Martin	41	+1 +2.5%	3		5	33	1	1,062	78	614	15,905
183	Eritrea	39					39		11
184	Botswana	35		1		14	20		15	0.4	17,991	7,665
185	Bhutan	33	+2 +6.5%			27	6		43		16,838	21,844
186	St. Vincent Grenadines	26	+1 +4%			12	14		234		584	5,266
187	Antigua and Barbuda	25		3		3	19	1	255	31	183	1,870
188	Gambia	25		1		4	20		10	0.4	1,756	729
189	East Timor	24					24		18		1,290	980
190	Grenada	23				5	18	4	204		3,007	26,734
191	Namibia	23				9	14		9		3,412	1,345
192	Laos	19				3	16		3		6,432	885
193	New Caledonia	19				1	18		67		6,416	22,492
194	Fiji	18				3	15		20		2,431	2,714
195	Saint Lucia	18					18		98		1,012	5,513
196	Curacao	18		1		3	14		110	6	572	3,487
197	Belize	18		2			16		45	5	1,572	3,960
198	Dominica	16					16		222		433	6,016
199	Saint Kitts and Nevis	15					15		282		394	7,411
200	Greenland	13				2	11		229		2,030	35,763
201	Falkland Islands	13					13		3,746		503	144,957
202	Vatican City	12				10	2		14,981
203	Suriname	12		1		2	9		20	2	782	1,334
204	Turks and Caicos	12		1		1	10		310	26	129	3,336
205	Seychelles	11					11		112
206	Montserrat	11		1			10		2,204	200	36	7,212
207	Western Sahara	9		1		2	6		15	2
208	MS Zaandam	9		2		7
209	British Virgin Islands	8		1			7		265	33	167	5,527
210	Papua New Guinea	8					8		0.9		2,402	269
211	St. Barth	6					6		608		137	13,875
212	Caribbean Netherlands	6					6		229		424	16,183
213	Anguilla	3					3		200		41	2,735
214	Lesotho	2				1	1		0.9		283	132
215	Saint Pierre Miquelon	1					1		173

Highlighted in green = all cases have recovered from the infection.

Highlighted in grey = all cases have had an outcome (there are no active cases).

Definitions

Total Cases = reported total cumulative count of detected and laboratory (and sometimes, depending on the country reporting them and the criteria adopted at the time, also clinically) confirmed positive and sometimes - depending on the country reporting standards - also presumptive, suspect, or probable cases of detected infection. Because it represents a cumulative count (rather than a snapshot of the number of current cases at any given time), this number can't decrease. The size of the gap between detected (whether confirmed, suspect or probable) and reported cases versus actual cases will depend on the number of tests performed and on the country's transparency in reporting. Most estimates have put the number of undetected cases at several multiples of detected cases.

Active Cases = (total cases) - (total deaths) - (recovered). This figure represents the current number of people detected and confirmed to be infected with the virus. This figure can increase or decrease, and represents an important metric for Public Health and Emergency response authorities when assessing hospitalization needs versus capacity.

Recoveries = this statistic is highly imperfect, because reporting can be missing, incomplete, incorrect, based on different definitions, or dated (or a combination of all of these) for many governments, both at the local and national level, sometimes with differences between states within the same country or counties within the same state. WHO recommends following the criteria of [symptoms resolve + 2 negative tests within 24 hours] or [symptoms resolve + additional 14 days], but this is only a recommendation. In some countries, when a patient is discharged from the hospital it is counted as "recovered" even if no test is performed. Some health officials now consider anyone who was diagnosed with COVID-19 three or more weeks ago and has not died to be recovered from the disease. In view of this, "Active Cases" and "Closed Cases Outcome" which both depend on the number of recoveries (in addition to an accurate death count and a satisfactory rate of case detection, both of which are lacking in the vast majority of countries) can be affected by this inherent flaw for many countries and for the total worldwide count.

Serious and Critical = similarly to recoveries, it is very imperfect, for many of the same reasons. When 99% of the cases were in China, the figure pretty much corresponded to the Chinese NHC's reported number of "severe" cases. Today, it represents for the most part the number of patients currently being treated in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), if and when this figure is reported.

Total Deaths = cumulative number of deaths among detected cases.

TRANSMISSION RATE (Ro)

(estimated range)

2 - 3 (2 - 3 newly infected from 1 case)

FATALITY RATE (CFR)

(WHO early estimate)

~ 3.4%

INCUBATION PERIOD

(estimated)

2 - 14 days (outliers: 0 - 27 days)

COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

(affected by COVID-19)

213

COVID19 Sections:

Coronavirus Timeline

On January 31, the first 2 novel coronavirus cases in the UK, ^[18] the first 2 cases in Russia, ^[20] and the first case in Sweden and in Spain were reported. Canada reported its 4^th case.
On Jan. 31, the United States
- declared Coronavirus a Public Health Emergency
- issued 14 days quarantine rules for US citizens entering the US from China (mandatory if entering from the Hubei province).
- issued an order to deny entry to foreigners who have traveled to China within the past two weeks.
On January 30, the novel coronavirus total case count surpassed that for SARS (which affected 8,096 people worldwide).
On January 30, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a Global Public Health Emergency.
On January 30 CDC confirmed the first US case of human to human transmission.
Germany, Japan, Vietnam and the United States have reported cases in patients who didn't personally visit China, but contracted the virus from someone else who had visited Wuhan, China^{. These cases of human to human transmission are the most worrisome, according to the WHO.}
Wuhan (the city where the virus originated) is the largest city in Central China, with a population of over 11 million people. The city, on January 23, shut down transport links. Following Wuhan lock down, the city of Huanggang was also placed in quarantine, and the city of Ezhou closed its train stations. This means than 18 million people have been placed in isolation. The World Health Organization (WHO) said cutting off a city as large as Wuhan is "unprecedented in public health history." and praised China for its incredible commitment to isolate the virus and minimize the spread to other countries.

How dangerous is the virus?

There are three parameters to understand in order to assess the magnitude of the risk posed by this novel coronavirus:

About COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Case Fatality Rate (CFR) - percent of cases that result in death
Determine whether asymptomatic transmission is possible

How contagious is the Wuhan Coronavirus? (Ro)

The attack rate or transmissibility (how rapidly the disease spreads) of a virus is indicated by its reproductive number (Ro, pronounced R-nought or r-zero), which represents the average number of people to which a single infected person will transmit the virus.

WHO's estimated (on Jan. 23) Ro to be between 1.4 and 2.5.

Other studies have estimated a Ro between 3.6 and 4.0, and between 2.24 to 3.58.

Preliminary studies had estimated Ro to be between 1.5 and 3.5.

An outbreak with a reproductive number of below 1 will gradually disappear.

For comparison, the Ro for the common flu is 1.3 and for SARS it was 2.0.

Fatality Rate (case fatality ratio or CFR) of the Wuhan Coronavirus

See full details: Coronavirus Fatality Rate

The novel coronavirus' case fatality rate has been estimated at around 2%, in the WHO press conference held on January 29, 2020. However, it noted that, without knowing how many were infected, it was too early to be able to put a percentage on the mortality rate figure.

A prior estimate had put that number at 3%.

Fatality rate can change as a virus can mutate, according to epidemiologists.

For comparison, the case fatality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%.

Incubation Period (how long it takes for symptoms to appear)

See full details: COVID-19 Coronavirus Incubation Period

Symptoms of COVID-19 may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 (estimated ranges vary from 2-10 days, 2-14 days, and 10-14 days, see details), during which the virus is contagious but the patient does not display any symptom (asymptomatic transmission).

Age and conditions of Coronavirus cases

See latest findings: Age, Sex, Demographics of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

According to early estimates by China's National Health Commission (NHC), about 80% of those who died were over the age of 60 and 75% of them had pre-existing health conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

According to the WHO Situation Report no. 7 issued on Jan. 27:

The median age of cases detected outside of China is 45 years, ranging from 2 to 74 years.
71% of cases were male.

A study of 138 hospitalized patients with NCIP found that the median age was 56 years (interquartile range, 42-68; range, 22-92 years) and 75 (54.3%) were men.

The WHO, in its Myth busters FAQs, addresses the question: "Does the new coronavirus affect older people, or are younger people also susceptible?" by answering that:

People of all ages can be infected by the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.

Patient who died in the Philippines was a 44-year old male

The patient who died in the Philippines on February 2, in what was the first death occurring outside of China, was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who was admitted on Jan. 25 after experiencing fever, cough, and sore throat, before developing severe pneumonia. In the last few days, “the patient was stable and showed signs of improvement, however, the condition of the patient deteriorated within his last 24 hours resulting in his demise." according to the Philippine Department of Health.

Serious Cases of 30 year old patients in France

As of Jan. 29, according to French authorities, the conditions of the two earliest Paris cases had worsened and the patients were being treated in intensive care, according to French authorities. The patients have been described as a young couple aged 30 and 31 years old, both Chinese citizens from Wuhan who were asymptomatic when they arrived in Paris on January 18

Age and Sex of the first deaths as reported by the China National Health Commission (NHC)

The NHC reported the details of the first 17 deaths up to 24 pm on January 22, 2020. The deaths included 13 males and 4 females. The median age of the deaths was 75 (range 48-89) years.

WHO Risk Assessment: Global Emergency

See full details: WHO coronavirus updates

On January 30, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a Global Public Health Emergency.

For more information from the WHO regarding novel coronavirus: WHO page on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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