Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 167 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, Russia and the UK.

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.

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 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 189 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 66 are high-income nations, 100 are middle-income and 23 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, with 513 million and 286 million respectively, while India has administered 192 million so far.

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

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

Here's a breakdown of the situation by region:

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, Nepal and Japan is changing the picture.

In India, the number of deaths linked to Covid-19 has moved past the 300,000 mark as the country continues to grapple with the pandemic.

Experts warn that the real number of fatalities might be much higher as many deaths are not officially recorded.

India has recorded 26 million cases - second only to the US - and is now the epicentre of the global pandemic.

The country is also only the third in the world to record more than 300,000 deaths - behind the US and Brazil.

As the chart below shows, India is far from the only country in Asia with rapidly climbing infections and many are experiencing the highest number of cases since the pandemic began.

Japan has started a mass vaccination programme in Tokyo and Osaka, as the Covid crisis there worsens.

The Japanese military has set up centres offering thousands of shots each day, prioritising the elderly.

Europe

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

But the number of daily infections has slowed in the worst affected countries, such as Turkey, Russia and Germany, and the overall trend in Europe is downward.

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.

France has changed the way it counts cases. Now, it only includes individuals testing positive rather than all positive tests - so multiple positive tests from the same person have been removed from the data. This means it is not included in the chart above, even though it has had around 5.5 million cases since the start of the pandemic - the highest in Europe.

North America

The US has recorded more than 33 million cases and 589,000 deaths, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases and deaths in the US are both now falling.

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.

Latin America

In Latin America, Brazil has recorded more than 16 million cases and 449,000 deaths - the world's second highest death toll - but the number of daily infections has slowed since March.

Argentina has begun a new nine-day lockdown after a slow vaccine rollout. President Alberto Fernández said the country was experiencing its worst moment of the pandemic.

Colombia and Chile have also seen recent surges in cases.

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 has recently experienced 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 4.7 million cases and more than 127,000 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 1.6 million cases, is the worst affected country on the continent, according to official figures.

Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Egypt have all recorded more than 250,000 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 almost 15,000.

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.