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Scope

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Total confirmed cases map
Map of confirmed cases per capita
  1000+ cases per million inhabitants
  100–1000 cases per million inhabitants
  10–100 cases per million inhabitants
  1–10 cases per million inhabitants
  0.1–1 cases per million inhabitants
  >0–0.1 cases per million inhabitants
  No confirmed cases
Deaths per capita map
Map of deaths per capita
  100+ deaths per million inhabitants
  10–100 deaths per million inhabitants
  1–10 deaths per million inhabitants
  0.1–1 deaths per million inhabitants
  0.01–0.1 deaths per million inhabitants
  >0–0.01 deaths per million inhabitants
  No deaths or no data
Cases per capita timeline
Timeline map of confirmed cases per capita (does not work on mobile)
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Maintain COVID-19 confirmed cases, deaths and recovery counts:

  1. Referenced with official government health agency counts as provided directly or by secondary reliable sources (WP:RS).
  2. As up-to-date as either official sources or reliable sources allow.
  3. Consistent between templates and pages (e.g. {{COVID-19 pandemic data}} and 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China.

Locations

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  • This is a guide to reliable sources for latest data about confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries per territory.
    • Add a note to a territory's entry if other epidemiological COVID-19 data parameters are available (such as daily numbers of lab tests).
  • If you are willing to update counts for a territory at least once a day, please, add your username to the adopters column.
  • If you are looking for a country to adopt, you may want to look for countries where your language is spoken and/or have a timezone similar to yours.
  • See #Fallback sources for other countries.
Locations Sources Adopters
Afghanistan The Government maintains an official tracker at covid.moph-dw.org. Data on testing is also published.
Albania The Government maintains an official tracker at coronavirus.al. News reports in English may be found in the Tirana Times (example). Reports in Albanian may be found in Shqiptarja.com (example) and other Albanian media outlets.
Algeria The Government updates an official ArcGIS dashboard. Sometimes, usually prior to updates, the website redirects to a sign-in page and is not usable. El Bilad publishes unofficial updates via Facebook.
Andorra Andorra has an official tracker but it does not report deaths or recoveries. Updates in Catalan language may be found in media outlets like Diari d'Andorra (example) or El Periòdic.
Angola Here updates on the number of cases by the government of Angola are published daily.
Armenia NCDC publishes daily updates in Armenian at 7:00 UTC.
Argentina Argentina's Ministry of Health publishes two daily reports: one with the numbers of recoveries in the morning, and a nightly one with the number of new cases and deaths. Also its site provides extra epidemiological information (all in Spanish).
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Australia Australia's Department of Health publishes a daily report of confirmed cases and deaths. Further updates may be found in media outlets like News.com.au (example).
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Austria The Government of Austria publishes a daily report for confirmed cases and deaths. Their interactive dashboard may have more up-to-date data.
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Azerbaijan The Government publishes an online report in Azerbaijani at koronavirusinfo.az. It includes confirmed cases (Virusa yoluxan), deaths (Ölüm halı) and recoveries (Sağalan).
Bahrain MOH publishes updates at midnight (local time) daily.
Bangladesh The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) of Bangladesh has a page dedicated for the number of cases, recoveries and deaths with daily updates at iedcr.gov.bd. There is also an official portal of the government in Bengali at corona.gov.bd.
Belarus Daily updates are published by Belta.by. Testing data is also included.
Belgium The Government of Belgium publishes daily updates at info-coronavirus.be in English, Dutch, French and German. The Dutch version and French version are updated faster. Latest data may also be found at media outlets like La Libre Belgique (example).
Belize The Ministry of Health publishes official updates at health.gov.bz (example).
Benin National statistics are updated on weekdays at gouv.bj
Bhutan Daily updates via facebook are published by the Ministry of Health
Bolivia Bolivia has an online tracker at boliviasegura.gob.bo with confirmed cases (Casos confirmados), deaths (Decesos) and recoveries (Casos recuperados). The site also provides daily announcements.
Bosnia and Herzegovina MCP publishes official updates for the entire country. Klix.ba publishes unofficial updates for the entire country. Updates for just the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina are published here. Updates for just Republika Srpska are published here.
Botswana Official updates are published here.
Brazil The Ministry of Health publishes reports at saude.gov.br (example). More up-to-date data may be found in media outlets like g1.globo.com (example).
Bulgaria The Ministry of Health publishes a daily report of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries in Bulgarian.
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Burkina Faso Service d'information du Gouvernement publishes daily reports about COVID-19 in French. LeFaso.net publishes the same reports about COVID-19 (example).
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Cambodia Reports are published by CDCMOH. CDCMOH also has a live tracker.
Canada CTV News maintains a detailed report including confirmed cases (presumptive cases must be subtracted), deaths and recoveries. The Government of Canada publishes a daily report, but it will be usually outdated.
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China The National Health Commission publishes a daily report at nhc.gov.cn. Use the URL of specific reports (e.g. 截至3月21日24时新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情最新情况. New reports can be found from the homepage and always have a similar Chinese title, changing the day number. The report contains confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries. It also reports data about Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan separately.
Chile The Ministry of Health publishes the official daily report. Region wise count can be found in the same website. It will get updated at around 11:00 AM Local time. The government also publishes an official website.
Colombia There are multiple official websites in Colombia. The Instituto Nacional de Salud publishes this daily report. MinSalud publishes this official website.
Cuba There is a frequently updated tracker at sld.cu including confirmed cases (Casos confirmados por laboratorio) and deaths (Muertes asociadas a la enfermedad). When outdated, reports may be found in Cuban media outlets like Cubadebate (example).
Czechia Official statistics can be found at the Czech Ministry of Health, updated twice daily at 9.00 and 18.00 local time (including tests and recoveries).
Denmark The Government of Denmark publishes a daily report of confirmed cases (Smittede personer) and deaths (Dødsfald). These are reported separately for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
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Ecuador The Government maintains an online tracker at coronavirusecuador.com with confirmed cases (Casos Confirmados), deaths (Personas fallecidas) and recoveries (Personas recuperadas).
Egypt care.gov.eg
Eritrea News from shabait.com contains statistics on COVID-19 in Eritrea.
Estonia An online tracker is regularly updated by the country's Health Board at koroonakaart.ee/en with confirmed cases, in treatment, deaths, recoveries and tests.
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands figures can no longer be found in the Danish daily report. They are now found at corona.fo
Fiji Fiji's Ministry of Health updates on cases, deaths and recoveries. Other reports may be found at the Fijian Broadcasting Corporation (example).
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Finland thl.fi
France France publishes an official daily report with a stable URL covering confirmed cases and deaths. Recoveries can be found in the press (e.g. 1587 sont sorties guéries de l'hôpital [1]). Official data from France (with map and history of day-to-day data).
Gabon There is an official tracker from the government. It shows confirmed cases (CAS CONFIRMÉS), recoveries (CAS RÉTABLIS) and deaths (TOTAL DÉCÉDÉS).
Georgia The main official website is stopcov.ge, but more detailed statistics including testing are published by NCDC.
Germany Various German newspapers maintain unofficial interactive trackers. The most reliable so far seem to be Tagesspiegel for cases and deaths and Zeit Online for recoveries. Berliner Morgenpost data has more reliability issues. The official data is released by the Robert Koch Institute on a daily basis, every morning.
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Greece Government of Greece: [2]
Greenland Greenland publishes a daily report. Greenland figures can also be found in the Danish daily report.
Guatemala The Ministry of Health maintains an online tracker.
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Guernsey The States of Guernsey publishes the latest information and testing results on their official website at gov.gg. Recoveries as well as confirmed, negative and pending result figures are given. Live updates for the Channel Islands (for Jersey and Guernsey) are also reported by ITV News.
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Guyana MOPH publishes updates daily via Facebook
Hungary Official statistics at Hungarian Ministry of Health, updated at least daily.
Iceland Official statistics at Government of Iceland or, in Icelandic, here, updated daily at 11:00 UTC.
India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare daily updates on its website. Updates generally cover confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
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Iran The Islamic Republic News Agency publishes daily updates on its website and on its Twitter (@IrnaEnglish. Updates generally cover confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
Iraq The Ministry of Health publishes updates on their facebook page.
Israel The government has a dashboard
Japan The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare publishes a daily report at mhlw.go.jp (example).
Jersey The Government of Jersey publishes the latest information and testing results on their official website at gov.je. Confirmed, negative and pending result figures are given together with the number of deaths abd recoveries. Live updates for the Channel Islands (for Jersey and Guernsey) are also reported by ITV News.
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Jordan The Ministry of Health, publishes daily in Arabic at corona.moh.gov.jo .
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Kazakhstan Coronavirus2020.kz publishes reliable updates on the situation daily.
Kuwait The government has a dashboard updated daily.
Kyrgyzstan AKIpress publishes the data daily. Also, there is an English version of the site, here, that publishes news reports. (example). There is also a government website.
Laos Daily updates are published here.
Latvia There is an official website that publishes updates daily.
Lebanon There are statistics from the Ministry of Information as well as a dashboard maintained by the Ministry of Public Health.
Libya NCDC has a dashboard with data partially in English. It is updated daily and includes testing data.
Lithuania There is an official website that publishes updates daily.
Malaysia The Ministry of Health of Malaysia maintains COVIDNOW, an official tracker of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
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Malawi Official tracker
Malta Reports may be found in media outlets like Malta Today (example).
Mexico The government updates two dashboards: One at coronavirus.gob.mx and the other at covid19.sinave.gob.mx.
Mongolia MOHS publishes updates daily here.
Morocco The Government maintains an up-to-date online tracker at covidmaroc.ma. It includes confirmed cases (Cas confirmés), deaths (Décès) and recoveries (Guéris).
Myanmar The Ministry of Health and Sports operates a dashboard via ArcGIS.
Nepal The official website is here. Reports may be found at The Himalayan Times (example).
Netherlands The Government of the Netherlands publishes a daily report of confirmed cases (positief geteste) and deaths (overleden). As of yet, the government does not count recovered cases so there is no reliable source for it.
New Zealand The Ministry of Health of New Zealand publishes daily media releases of cases (usually confirmed and sometimes suspected cases included too). Total recoveries are sometimes mentioned.
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North Macedonia The Macedonian Ministry of Health publishes a daily report of confirmed (дијагностицирани), death (смртни), active (активни), new (нови) and serious/critical (сериозни/критични) cases. There is also a reliable interactive dashboard that may display more up-to-date data. This reference aris in Macedonian language.
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Norway The online newspaper Verdens Gang maintains an interactive dashboard for confirmed cases (Registrert smittet) and deaths (Døde). There is no reliable source for recoveries.
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Oman The Ministry of Health maintains an official tracker of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries in English.
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Pakistan The Government of Pakistan maintains an up-to-date report of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries at covid.gov.pk.
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Palestine The unofficial corona.ps publishes updates.
Panama The Ministry of Health maintains an interactive dashboard with confirmed cases (Casos confirmados), deaths (Fallecidos) and recoveries (Recuperados).
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Paraguay MSPBS publishes daily updates here.
Peru The Ministry of Health reports new cases daily at www.gob.pe
Philippines The Government maintains an up-to-date interactive dashboard at ncovtracker.doh.gov.ph. It includes, confirmed cases, deaths, recoveries and other metrics.
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Poland The Polish Ministry of Health (MOH) publishes several updates per day on a Twitter account in California (@MZ_GOV_PL, example). Other daily parameters from the same source: suspected/hospitalised; quarantined; monitored; lab tests done.
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Portugal The Portuguese Ministry of Health maintains an interactive dashboard with confirmed cases (Casos Confirmados), deaths (Óbitos) and recoveries (Recuperados).
Qatar This Ministry of Public Health has a dedicated page to keep track of the new cases, deaths and recoveries in English.
Russia Data is published by the government here and by the Ministry of Health here
Saint Lucia The Ministry of Health and Wellness maintains an online tracker of confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths.
Saudi Arabia There is an official tracker by the Ministry of Health - here.
Singapore The Singapore's Ministry of Health provides daily updates on the figures of active cases, recovered and deaths. [3]
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Slovakia Official statistics at Slovak Ministry of Health, updated daily.
South Korea The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) publishes a daily report at cdc.go.kr. See the report list.
Spain The Ministry of Health and ISCIII publish daily reports with consolidated counts of confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries. These figures are updated daily by RTVE and El País, which are the most up-to-date sources (except for a small time lapse when ISCIII publishes a daily update).
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Sri Lanka The Ministry of Health maintains an online report and daily reports in PDF. Both in English. The former is more up-to-date.
Suriname The National Emergency Center maintains a site with confirmed cases (Positief), deaths (Overleden) and recoveries (Genezen) at covid-19.sr.
Sweden Government reports update numbers every day at 11:30, reporting them to the public at 14:00 through a specialized platform. The Swedish Intensive care registry (SIR) provides up-to-date report about severe cases. Older sources no longer maintain accurate statistics, such as the public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) report of confirmed cases and deaths. Unofficial dashboards, such as platz.se, C19.se, etc. should not be used, as they have reported inaccurate recovery data.
Switzerland Switzerland publishes a daily report of confirmed cases and deaths with a stable URL.
Syria Official Updates on Facebook
Tajikistan covid.tj publishes updates daily.
Thailand COVID-19 information from the Department of Disease Control (DDC) is published here. Information is also available on this website.
Tunisia An official website is updated daily. Sometimes the dashboard will say "No data." When this happens, refer to the graph showing the spread over time.
Turkey The official website publishes updates daily.
Ukraine Ukraine's Ministry of Healthcare updates data on covid19.com.ua
United Arab Emirates A dashboard is maintained by the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority. The Ministry of Health and Prevention also publishes a daily update. The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority also manages a dashboard in Arabic.
United Kingdom The data is now published at coronavirus.data.gov.uk.
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United States There are two main reliable sources for the United States; Johns Hopkins CSSE for rolling updates, and CDC, which is updated on week days. Also, most state governments publish their own statistics.
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Uruguay The Government publishes daily communiques at www.gub.uy and an updated tracker by Department
Uzbekistan The Government maintains an up-to-date tracker at coronavirus.uz. It includes confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
Venezuela The Ministry of Health maintains an up-to-date tracker at covid19.patria.org.ve. It includes confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
Vietnam The Ministry of Health maintains an up-to-date tracker at ncov.moh.gov.vn. It includes confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
Yemen The Yemen Supreme National Emergency Committee for COVID-19 publishes updates on Twitter daily.

Common errors

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Aggregate sources like Worldometer, the Johns Hopkins University or 1point3acres offer timely updates based on other sources. However, there are some common errors in these sources that should be considered:

Territory double-counting

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The JHU CSSE counts cases in overseas France twice. They add them to France's total, but they are already included in the official figures for France. See discussions: 1, 2.

Case double-counting

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JHU CSSE and Worldometer used to add cases in nursing homes to the total number of cases in France. However, the official total for France already includes these cases. This results in more than 30,000 cases double-counted. See discussion: 1, 2. See acknowledgement by the JHU. As of mid April, this problem is fixed both in JHU CSSE and Worldometer.

Suspected cases

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Aggregate sources may include presumptive or suspected cases in the total of confirmed cases. Worldometer and JHU CSSE consistently do this for countries like France, Canada or New Zealand. Note that JHU CSSE inclusion of presumptive cases is not an error, as it conforms to their own definition for "Cases" and its documentation.

Erroneous metrics for recoveries

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1point3acres may include incorrect metrics in recoveries. For example, for Northern Mariana Islands they included all people released from quarantine as recoveries (now fixed). However, most people in quarantine were not confirmed cases in the first place. See discussion: 1.

Fallback sources

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Some countries have some kind of daily (or even hourly) online reporting by state agencies (e.g. France), state-run news agencies (e.g. Iran) or a reputable independent media outlet. These sources are preferred and we track them at the #Locations section. However, when these are not available or when they lag too much, we need to look for other sources. Here are some tips to find them:

  • Worldometer often cites their sources in the Latest Updates section. You may find reliable sources there.
  • John Hopkins University is also a reputable source with frequent updates for countries and territories across the globe. There is also a 2019-nCoV data repository on GitHub.
  • Reuters has a high reputation as a reliable source and often publishes reports on new COVID-19 cases. You may use a search engine to find Reuters reports searching for site:reuters.com covid-19 (Google) and setting up filtering for the past 24 hours.
  • Xinhua News Agency publishes reports on new COVID-19 in many countries that are usually underreported. These reports might be found on xinhuanet.com or china.org.cn. Note that the date of the report might be previous to the date indicated in the dateline. When this happens, the actual date may be found in the first paragraph of the text.

See also

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