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CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
                                                              Na ons with the Most Confirmed COVID-19 Cases*
                  The world has yet to tame the COVID-19      Na on            Cases    Na on         Cases
               virus, though some may think we have done      United States   33,104,884  Argen na   3,514,683
               so. There were over 4.3 million new cases
               globally in the week ending May 22. India,     India          26,530,132  Colombia    3,210,787
               much in the news lately, accounted for 2.0     Brazil         16,047,439  Poland      2,864,546
               million of those cases. Infections were also   France          5,979,597  Iran        2,823,887
               on the rise in Argentina, Costa Rica, Hun-     Turkey          5,178,648  Mexico      2,395,330
               gary, Lithuania, and Nepal. Data scientists
               studying the spread of COVID-19 have found     Russia          4,935,302  Ukraine     2,237,240
               that the magnitude of the pandemic appears     United Kingdom   4,476,297  Peru       1,920,851
               to be greatly underreported due to a lack of   Italy           4,188,190  Indonesia   1,758,898
               testing, lack of manpower, and/or pressure     Germany         3,653,019  Czechia     1,657,558
               from governments to cover up the extent        Spain           3,636,453  Netherlands   1,649,960
               of the outbreak. This suggests case levels     *As of May 22, 2021
               are likely much higher than what is being      Source: Our World in Data
               reported in the media.























































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