COVID-19 pandemic cases

The United States and Italy were first two countries to overtake China in terms of the number of confirmed cases.

The country that overtook China in terms of the number of confirmed cases several days later was the United Kingdom.

Japan was the first country in East Asia to overtake China in terms of the number of confirmed cases.

Greece, Thailand, Romania, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, Chile and Hungary, have at least two million cases.

The disease has spread very easily to the United States, India, France, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, Russia, Japan, Spain, Argentina, Australia, Poland, Portugal, Thailand, Greece, Chile, Canada, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary and Egypt and many other countries.

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.

In January 2023, North Kore put its capital, Pyongyang, on a 5-day lockdown due to a reported "respiratory illness", though it did not mention COVID-19.

Residents were told to stay home and submit to temperature checks multiple times daily.

The pages below provide tables of daily figures: Doctors and media expressed scepticism of official infection counts in some countries,[11][12][13] and statistical analysis suggested anomalies.