Covid-19 map in detail

Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 115 million confirmed cases and 2.5 million deaths across nearly 200 countries.

Confirmed cases have been rising steeply since the middle of last year, but the true extent of the first outbreaks in 2020 is unclear because testing was not then widely available.

The 100 millionth coronavirus case was recorded at the end of January – about a year after the first officially diagnosed case of the virus.

Who has vaccinated the most?

Several coronavirus vaccines against the virus have now been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of the 110 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 62 are high-income nations, 48 are middle-income and none are low-income.

The map below, using figures collated by Our World in Data – a collaboration between Oxford University and an educational charity – shows the total number of doses given per 100 people, mostly first doses.

Overall, the US and China have given the most doses, 82 million and 52 million respectively, while the UK has administered almost 22 million so far.

But when breaking the figures down by population, looking at doses administered per 100 people in the 10 countries giving the most vaccinations, Israel, the UAE and the UK top the list – as the chart below shows.

Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable.

Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need, while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a vaccine.

Several African countries have received vaccines through the Covax initiative, with vaccinations now underway in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda.