Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with more than 60 million confirmed cases in 190 countries and more than 1.4 million deaths.

The virus is surging in many regions and countries that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are also seeing infections rise again.

In the table below, countries can be reordered by deaths, death rate and total cases. In the coloured bars on the right-hand side, countries in which cases have risen to more than 5,000 per day are those with black bars on the relevant date.

Note: The map, table and animated bar chart in this page use a different source for figures for France and the UK from that used by Johns Hopkins University, which results in a slightly lower overall total. US figures do not include Puerto Rico, Guam or the US Virgin Islands.

Coronavirus cases have surged over the past few months in several regions of the world and large numbers of new infections are being reported daily.

The most recent figures show more than 490,000 new cases reported in 24 hours.

Amid warnings that healthcare systems are being pushed to breaking point, World Health Organization Director General Tedros  Adhanom Ghebreyesus says positive news from vaccine trials means the "light at the end of this long, dark tunnel is growing brighter".

But he warned against allowing the poorest and most vulnerable to be "trampled in the stampede" to get inoculated.

As populations await vaccine roll-out, cases remain high across a number of regions of the world.

The US has recorded almost 13 million cases and more than 260,000 deaths from coronavirus, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases have been at record levels since early November and there are now more than 90,000 people in hospital, more than in either of the two previous peaks of the pandemic.

One US disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, has said the country could face another surge of cases as Americans return home after the Thanksgiving holiday.

The outbreak has had a devastating impact on the US economy, although there are now some signs it is recovering.

Nearly eight million Americans, many of them children and minorities, have fallen into poverty since May, according to researchers.

Daily cases have risen in many European countries since July.

France has recorded more than two million cases; Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK have all recorded more than one million cases. but all their numbers have either stabilised or started to fall in recent days.

Lockdowns and other restrictions were reintroduced in some of the worst-affected regions to help bring numbers down.

Japan is on "maximum alert" after seeing a record number of daily cases in a third wave of infections. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga urged people to do all they could to prevent new infections.

The number of new deaths in Japan, however, has remained relatively low. Other countries that have seen a resurgence of the virus include Turkey, Canada and Russia.

Several countries around the world are currently seeing cases spike.

In the Middle East, both Iran and Jordan have seen the number of daily infections rise sharply in recent weeks. Numbers have also been rising Ukraine.

In Latin America, Brazil has more than six million confirmed cases and the world's second highest death toll. There are concerns the country is now facing a second wave of infections.

Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have also recorded more than one million cases. Peru is also approaching that milestone, although daily cases are falling.

India has driven the increase in numbers in Asia, with over nine million confirmed infections, the second-highest official total in the world after the US.

Africa has recorded more than two million cases, although the true extent of the pandemic there is not known as testing rates are low.

South Africa, with more than 770,000 cases and more than 21,000 deaths, is still the worst affected country on the continent. Morocco, Egypt and Ethiopia are the only other African countries to officially record more than 100,000 cases.

The virus, which causes the respiratory infection Covid-19, was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

The outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020 and declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March.

A pandemic is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.

Governments across the world have been forced to limit public movement and close businesses and venues in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. This has had a devastating impact on the global economy.

Damage to the world's major economies is four times worse than the 2009 global financial crisis, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Meanwhile, the United Nations has said that up to 265 million people could face starvation by the end of the year because of the impact of Covid-19.

The pandemic could also wipe out 25 years of increasing gender equality, data from UN Women suggests.

The data used on this page comes from a variety of sources. It includes figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, national governments and health agencies, as well as UN data on populations.

When comparing figures from different countries it is important to bear in mind that not all governments are recording coronavirus cases and deaths in the same way. This makes like for like comparisons between countries difficult.

Other factors to consider include: different population sizes, the size of a country's elderly population or whether a particular country has a large amount of its people living in densely-populated areas. In addition, countries may be in different stages of the pandemic.