Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 210 million confirmed cases and 4.4 million deaths across nearly 200 countries.

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

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. 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 outbreak 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.

Of the 197 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 67 are high-income nations, 103 are middle-income and 26 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 India have administered the highest number of doses, with more than 1.9 billion and 560 million respectively. The US ranks third, with more than 350 million.

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, Uruguay and Singapore 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.

The number of daily cases is rising again in several regions.

Asia

Asia, which was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from Wuhan in China in early 2020, has seen another recent rise in cases.

That has been driven by a spike in infections in several countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan.

In Thailand, total cases topped one million on Friday, with 97% of those recorded since March this year. There have been protests in Bangkok about the government's handling of the recent outbreak and a slow vaccine rollout.

In India, where the number of new daily cases has fallen recently, the official death toll is 433,000 and it has recorded 32 million cases - second only to the US.

Latin America

In Latin America, Brazil has recorded more than 20 million cases and more than 570,000 deaths - the world's second highest official death toll.

Mexico has seen the fourth highest number of deaths in the world, with more than 250,000, and is currently seeing another surge in cases.

Peru now has the fifth highest toll with nearly 200,000 deaths, but the highest number of deaths by population size - more than 600 deaths for every 100,000 people.

Europe

Although the UK, Russia and Spain all saw a rise in cases recently, driven by the Delta variant of the virus, numbers have started to fall.

Other European countries, such as France, Italy and Greece, are still seeing case numbers climb.

New cases in the UK are similar to the level seen in the Spring, though the high level of vaccination has greatly reduced the number of deaths.

North America

The US has recorded more than 37 million cases and about 625,000 deaths - the highest figures in the world.

Daily case numbers in the US fell in May and June but are rising again as Delta becomes the main variant in circulation.

The death rate in Canada is far lower than its neighbour's and it is currently seeing a relatively low number of daily cases.

Middle East

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

Iran has the highest official death toll in the region and the country is currently seeing its biggest rise in daily cases since the pandemic began.

Israel has rolled out a highly successful vaccination programme, but has seen a surge in cases and has started offering a third dose of vaccine to people aged over 60.

Africa

Africa has seen more than seven million cases and 180,000 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 2.6 million cases and 78,000 deaths, is the worst affected country on the continent, according to official figures.

Morocco has recorded 790,000 cases and Tunisia is not far behind with just over 630,000. Ethiopia, Libya and Egypt are approaching 300,000 cases.

Oceania

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

But there is new concern in Australia where record cases of the Delta variant have prompted major cities, including Sydney, to go into lockdown.

New Zealand has also gone back into full lockdown after a number of cases - still very low by other countries' standards - were discovered first in Auckland and later the capital, Wellington.

Elsewhere, in French Polynesia, a sprawling network of islands in the Pacific Ocean, cases are currently surging.

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.