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There are nearly 1.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in 184 countries and at least 88,000 people have died.

More than half of all the confirmed cases have been in Europe, with Spain and Italy worst affected. However, the United States now has more than twice as many confirmed cases as any other single country.

This series of maps and charts tracks the spread of the virus since it emerged in China in December last year.

How many deaths and recoveries have there been?

The virus is spreading rapidly in many countries and the death toll is still climbing - but the majority of people are recovering from the infection.

The country with the highest number of cases is the US, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University. With more than 430,000 confirmed cases, it has more than five times the official number recorded in China.

China's official death toll from the outbreak is just over 3,300 - but the US, Italy, Spain and France have each recorded more than 10,000 deaths.

On Thursday, China reported only two new deaths, having only recently had a day with no deaths at all - for the first time since it began publishing figures. Critics of the Chinese government, however, have questioned whether the country's official numbers could be trusted.

Coronavirus global cases, 9 April 2020

This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country.

	Cases	Deaths
USA	431,331	14,786
Spain	146,690	14,555
Italy	139,422	17,669
Germany	113,296	2,349
China	82,867	3,339
France	82,048	10,869
Iran	64,586	3,993
UK	60,733	7,097
Turkey	38,226	812
Belgium	23,403	2,240
Switzerland	23,280	895
Netherlands	20,551	2,248
Canada	19,290	436
Brazil	16,188	820
Portugal	13,141	380
Austria	12,942	273
South Korea	10,423	204
Israel	9,404	73
Russia	8,672	63
Sweden	8,419	687
Ireland	6,074	235
Australia	6,052	50
Norway	6,042	101
India	5,916	178
Chile	5,546	48
Denmark	5,402	218
Czech Republic	5,312	99
Poland	5,205	159
Romania	4,761	220
Japan	4,667	94
Ecuador	4,450	242
Peru	4,342	121
Pakistan	4,263	61
Malaysia	4,119	65
Philippines	3,870	182
Mexico	3,181	174
Luxembourg	3,034	46
Indonesia	2,956	240
Saudi Arabia	2,932	41
Serbia	2,666	65
United Arab Emirates	2,659	12
Panama	2,528	63
Finland	2,487	40
Thailand	2,369	30
Qatar	2,210	6
Dominican Republic	2,111	108
Colombia	2,054	55
Greece	1,884	83
South Africa	1,845	18
Argentina	1,795	65
Ukraine	1,668	52
Singapore	1,623	6
Iceland	1,616	6
Algeria	1,572	205
Egypt	1,560	103
Croatia	1,343	19
Morocco	1,275	93
New Zealand	1,239	1
Iraq	1,202	69
Estonia	1,185	24
Moldova	1,174	27
Slovenia	1,091	40
Belarus	1,066	13
Lithuania	912	15
Hungary	895	58
Armenia	881	9
Kuwait	855	1
Bahrain	823	5
Azerbaijan	822	8
Bosnia and Herzegovina	804	34
Cameroon	730	10
Kazakhstan	727	7
Diamond Princess cruise ship	712	11
Slovakia	682	2
Tunisia	628	24
Puerto Rico	620	24
North Macedonia	617	29
Bulgaria	593	24
Latvia	577	2
Lebanon	576	19
Andorra	564	23
Uzbekistan	545	3
Cyprus	526	9
Costa Rica	502	3
Cuba	457	12
Uruguay	456	7
Afghanistan	444	14
Oman	419	2
Burkina Faso	414	23
Albania	400	22
Ivory Coast	384	3
Taiwan	379	5
Réunion	362
Jordan	358	6
Honduras	343	23
Niger	342	11
Ghana	313	6
San Marino	308	34
Malta	299	1
Nigeria	276	6
Mauritius	273	7
Kyrgyzstan	270	4
Palestinian Territories	263	1
Vietnam	251
Montenegro	248	2
Senegal	244	2
Bangladesh	218	20
Georgia	211	3
Bolivia	210	15
Sri Lanka	189	7
Faroe Islands	184
Kosovo	184	5
Mayotte	184	2
Guernsey	181	5
DR Congo	180	18
Kenya	179	6
Jersey	170	3
Venezuela	167	9
Guinea	164
Isle of Man	158	1
Martinique	154	6
Guadeloupe	141	8
Brunei	135	1
Djibouti	135
Guam	125	4
Gibraltar	120
Paraguay	119	5
Cambodia	117
Rwanda	110
Trinidad and Tobago	107	8
El Salvador	93	5
Madagascar	93
Guatemala	87	3
French Guiana	83
Monaco	81	1
Liechtenstein	78	1
Aruba	77
Togo	70	3
Barbados	63	3
Jamaica	63	4
Mali	59	7
Ethiopia	55	2
Uganda	53
French Polynesia	51
Cayman Islands	45	1
United States Virgin Islands	45	1
Congo	45	5
Bahamas	40	7
Sint Maarten	40	6
Zambia	39	1
Bermuda	39	3
Guyana	37	6
Gabon	34	1
Eritrea	33
Guinea-Bissau	33
Saint Martin	32	2
Liberia	31	4
Haiti	27	1
Benin	26	1
Tanzania	25	1
Myanmar	22	3
Libya	21	1
Syria	19	2
Angola	19	2
Maldives	19
Antigua and Barbuda	19	2
Equatorial Guinea	18
New Caledonia	18
Mozambique	17
Mongolia	16
Namibia	16
Laos	15
Dominica	15
Fiji	15
Sudan	14	2
Saint Lucia	14
Curaçao	14	1
Somalia	12	1
Eswatini	12
Grenada	12
Greenland	11
Seychelles	11
Zimbabwe	11	3
Saint Kitts and Nevis	11
Northern Mariana Islands	11	2
Suriname	10	1
Chad	10
Nepal	9
Montserrat	9
MS Zaandam cruise ship	9	2
Turks and Caicos Islands	8	1
Malawi	8	1
Central African Republic	8
St Vincent and the Grenadines	8
Vatican	8
Belize	8	1
Cape Verde	7	1
Sierra Leone	7
Mauritania	6	1
Saint Barthelemy	6
Botswana	6	1
Nicaragua	6	1
Bhutan	5
Falkland Islands	5
Western Sahara	4
Sao Tome and Principe	4
Gambia	4	1
British Virgin Islands	3
Anguilla	3
Burundi	3
Papua New Guinea	2
South Sudan	2
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1
Timor-Leste	1

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Source: Johns Hopkins University, national public health agencies

Last updated on 9 April 2020, 07:00 BST.

The outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March. This is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.

The WHO said it took more than three months to reach the first 100,000 confirmed cases worldwide, but it took less than a week for the number to double from 500,000 to a million.

The true figure for the number of people with coronavirus is thought to be much higher as many of those with milder symptoms have not been tested and counted.

China has now lifted many of the stringent measures it took to bring the disease under control. On Wednesday, authorities eased travel restrictions in Wuhan, the city where the outbreak began in late 2019.

South Korea, where a major outbreak began in February, has also seen the number of new cases fall in recent weeks.

Governments across the world have halted flights, locked down towns and cities and urged people to stay at home.

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Europe still struggling - but signs of hope?

European countries have seen steep rises in cases and deaths, but slowing infection rates are raising hopes that strict social distancing measures are curbing the spread of the virus.

Italy has the highest toll of any single country in the world, with more than 17,600 deaths so far, but recent data suggests the infection rate is slowing.

There have now been fewer than 600 deaths recorded in the country for three of the last four days.

The majority of deaths have occurred in the northern Lombardy region, which contains the city of Milan. Hospitals there were reportedly at breaking point and retired doctors and nurses were asked to return to work.

On Thursday, Spain's death toll rose to 15,230 - the second highest of any country. There are now nearly 152,000 confirmed cases in Spain, but data shows the rate of new cases is falling.

The Spanish government is expected to extend the state of emergency until 26 April to help curb the spread of the virus. Spaniards have been in lockdown since 14 March.

On Tuesday, France became the fourth country to pass 10,000 deaths with the virus, following Italy, Spain and the US.

In the UK, there have been more than 60,000 confirmed cases and more than 7,000 deaths. The country's first emergency field hospital, built in London's ExCel Centre, was opened last week. The NHS Nightingale hospital, as it has been called, has space for 4,000 intensive care beds. Others are planned across the UK.

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In Spain and the UK, deaths grew rapidly at first, doubling faster than every two days. That rate of increase has now slowed to doubling between every second and third day.

Italy's death rate has also slowed, while that of the US is continuing in roughly a straight line, doubling about every three days at present.

Cases rising quickly in the US

With more than 430,000 cases, the US has more confirmed infections than any other country. New York state itself, with more than 150,000 cases, has more than any other single country outside the US.

But state governor Andrew Cuomo said the financial capital of New York City was witnessing a flattening curve of cases as social distancing measures seemed to be working.

The number of deaths from the virus in the US now stands at nearly 15,000.

Nearly all Americans are now living under some form of lockdown as states increase efforts to curb the outbreak.

President Trump has said he wants the economy to reopen with a "big bang" - but that would have to wait until the US was on the downward slope in terms of infections.

Federal coronavirus guidelines, such as social distancing, will be in place across the country until at least 30 April.

The outbreak is having a major economic impact, with figures showing the number of people without jobs surging to a record high of nearly 6.6 million in the week ending 28 March. That is nearly double the week earlier, which was also a new record. The previous record was set in 1982, when unemployment claims hit 695,000.

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Which countries are on lockdown?

The majority of countries in Europe now have strict lockdowns in place, with many only allowed citizens to leave their homes to buy essential items or exercise. In Paris, authorities have even banned exercise during the day to reduce the number of people out on the streets.

India's government told the country's 1.3 billion residents to stay at home last month and there are similar restrictions on movement and social contact across the world in countries like Argentina, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

Data on planned journeys in major cities, from the travel app Citymapper, shows how people in places like London, Madrid, Istanbul and New York are now moving around far less than they were a few weeks ago.

The data shows that while Milan in northern Italy has been locked down for several weeks now, many other cities have been restricting movement for a much shorter period.

While movement is also down in the South Korean capital Seoul, the city hasn't ground to a halt like European capitals despite facing huge numbers of coronavirus cases - a sign of the country's decision to focus on widespread testing and contact tracing rather than imposing a lockdown.

In Russia, the Kremlin had insisted that there was "de facto no epidemic" in the country but last week President Putin urged people to stay at home, which explains the significant drop in movement in Moscow.

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