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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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