Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 150 million confirmed cases and three million deaths across nearly 200 countries.

The US, India and Brazil have seen the highest number of confirmed cases, followed by France, Turkey and Russia.

Very few places have been left untouched.

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 10,000 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.

Confirmed cases have been rising steeply since the middle of last year, but the true extent of the first outbreaks in 2020 is unclear because testing was not then widely available.

The 100 millionth Covid case was recorded at the end of January - about a year after the first officially diagnosed case of the virus.

The world has now seen 150 million recorded cases.

Deaths have also been rising, however official figures may not fully reflect the true number in many countries.

Data on excess deaths, a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years, may give a better indication of the actual numbers in many cases.

Several coronavirus vaccines have now been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of the 179 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 68 are high-income nations, 94 are middle-income and 17 low-income.

The map below, using figures collated by Our World in Data - a collaboration between Oxford University and an educational charity - shows the total number of doses given per 100 people, mostly first doses.

Overall, China and the US have given the most doses, 255 million and 237 million respectively, while India has administered almost 150 million so far.

But when breaking the figures down by doses per 100 people in countries with a population of at least one million, Israel and the United Arab Emirates top the list.

Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable.

Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need, while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a vaccine.

Several African countries have received vaccines through the Covax initiative, with vaccinations now underway in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda, among others.

With many countries now having started widespread vaccine rollouts, the number of daily cases is stable or falling in most regions.

Asia, however, is the notable exception, mostly due to India's recent surge in cases.

Here's a breakdown of the situation by region:

Europe

Several European countries have seen spikes in Covid cases in recent months.

Turkey, Germany and the Netherlands have see rises, but the number of daily infections has slowed in France and Italy.

Vaccine rollouts across the European Union have been problematic.

There have been delays to deliveries and concerns over the safety of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine, which a number of countries have withdrawn from use or restricted to certain age groups.

North America

The US has recorded more than 32 million cases and more than 570,000 deaths, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases now appear to be levelling off after a steep fall in February.

Canada, which has a far lower death rate than the US, also experienced a recent surge. Daily cases there fell in January before rising in March and April.

Asia

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from China in early 2020, but the number of cases and deaths there was initially lower than in Europe and North America.

However, the recent surge in cases in India, the Philippines and Pakistan is changing the picture.

India's devastating second wave has seen more than 18 million confirmed cases, the second-highest total in the world after the US.

The official number of coronavirus deaths is more than 200,000, though with many people avoiding testing, or struggling to access it, and deaths in rural areas often going unregistered, the actual death toll could already be much higher.

Middle East

Several countries in the Middle East have had severe outbreaks of the virus, with Iran and Iraq having seen the highest numbers of deaths.

Iran has the highest official death toll in the region and the country is currently experiencing its biggest spike in cases.

Israel, which has rolled out a highly successful vaccination programme, has seen its number of daily infections drop significantly in recent months.

Africa

Africa has recorded more than 4.5 million cases and more than 120,000 deaths - but the true extent of the pandemic in many African countries is not known as testing rates are low.

South Africa, with more than 1.5 million cases, is the worst affected country on the continent, according to official figures.

Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia. Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Kenya and Algeria have also recorded more than 100,000 cases.

Latin America

In Latin America, there has been particular concern about a variant of the virus that has been spreading rapidly in Brazil.

The country has recorded more than 400,000 deaths and a projection by experts at the University of Washington suggests Brazil could hit 500,000 deaths in June.

Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have all recorded more than two million cases.

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand have been praised for their response to the pandemic, with both countries having seen comparatively few deaths.

In a sign of how effective their lockdown measures have been, the average number of cases in both countries is similar to that in French Polynesia, a sprawling network of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Elsewhere in the region, Papua New Guinea saw a recent spike in infections, taking total cases there to about 11,000.

Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019 but the outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020.

It was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020.

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

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.