Coronavirus World Map: 2,954,222 Confirmed Cases; 207 Countries; 202,597 Deaths

WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 99

WHO has published the ‘R&D Blueprint: COVID-19 Experimental Treatments,’ which lists drug and non-drug experimental treatments for COVID-19. This can be found here.

WHO has called on countries to ensure that usual immunization is maintained wherever possible and surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases is not disrupted during the ongoing pandemic.

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros, in his regular media briefing yesterday, highlighted “As lockdowns in Europeease with declining numbers of new cases, we continue to urge countries to find, isolate, test and treat all cases of COVID-19 and trace every contact, to ensure these declining trends continue.”

WHO continues to source millions of dollars of medical equipment and supplies to help Member States access global markets, which are overwhelmed by unprecedented demand. WHO is also supporting design and installation of COVID-19 treatment centers in a number of countries. For more, see ‘Subject in Focus’ below.

Risk Assessment

Global Level: Very High

Coronavirus Situation in Numbers

Globally

• 2,954,222 confirmed cases (76,026 new)
• 202,597 deaths (3,932 new)

European Region

• 1,386,693 confirmed cases (27,313 new)
• 126,429 deaths (1,904 new)

Regions of the Americas

• 1,179,607 confirmed cases (39,087 new)
• 60,211 deaths (1,722 new)

Eastern Mediterranean Region

• 171,238 confirmed cases (5,305 new)
• 6,991 deaths (104 new)

Western Pacific Region

• 144,121 confirmed cases (1,482 new)
• 5,958 deaths (15 new)

South-East Asia

• 46,060 confirmed cases (2,214 new)
• 1,824 deaths (77 new)

African Region

• 21,470 confirmed cases (1,154 new)
• 865 deaths (26 new)

SUBJECT IN FOCUS: Partner Coordination

Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs)

• A weekly Global Coordination Call continues to be held, providing the network with updates on current operations, technical guidance, and sharing of current experiences and practices from various EMT responses to COVID-19. For current operations, the EMT Secretariat provides information on requests for global support to raise awareness and facilitate deployments of available EMTs.
• Nineteen International EMTs classified and/or in the classification process have deployed to fifteen countries across three WHO regions.
• Thirty-six EMTs are responding nationally to support and reinforce local health systems in all Regions.
• Additional deployments of Chinese EMTs are expected to Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zimbabwe. WHO is currently working with the EMTs and countries to facilitate additional teams to Comoros and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Global Health Cluster (GHC)

• WHO and the GHC are coordinating inputs from partners on the first update of the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) including mental health and psychosocial services, gender-based violence, protection and specific needs of older people and migrants, minimum Sphere humanitarian standards, and issues related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
• Analysis is ongoing to strengthen projections and service requirements for COVID-19 cases and wider humanitarian needs; and monitoring the impact of COVID-19 protection measures on access to essential health services.
• Reports from field locations highlight the challenges of contact tracing and sample collection in insecure areas; insufficient personal protective equipment for partners supporting health facilities; and the additional challenges of operating with staff in self-quarantine.
• GHC partners were briefed on the development of the UN COVID-19 Supply Chain Taskforce; and a webinar was held for all Health Cluster Coordinators on isolation in humanitarian settings.
• Interim Guidance on Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings is under development.

Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)

• UNICEF, IFRC, US CDC, and OCHA continue to work closely with WHO, embedded in the global COVID-19 incident management team; and are supporting all pillars of response.
• WHO continues to facilitate direct and remote technical assistance to countries through GOARN regional and global networks to support health operations.
• A public information hub has been launched on the GOARN knowledge platform for COVID-19 to facilitate the sharing of resources by partners and other stakeholders.
• IFRC, UNICEF, and WHO with GOARN support are strengthening coordination and collaboration among key stakeholders at the global and regional levels in risk communications and community engagement (RCCE).
• With support from GOARN partners, 23 experts have been deployed or are in the process of deployment to support COVID-19 response directly or remotely. WHO is currently working with GOARN partners and EMTs to provide support in São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste, Italy, and Ecuador.
• A working group of partners has been established on contact tracing, field epidemiology, and using Go.Data to assist the urgent scale up of contact tracing capacity.

Risk Communications and Community Engagement (RCCE)

• The tripartite partnership of IFRC, UNICEF, and WHO is leading activities on Risk Communications and Community Engagement (RCCE).
• The tripartite priorities and upcoming guides, research and tools include social, cultural, and behavioral insights to guide strategies and response actions. They also provide recommendations for home care, community engagement for post-lockdown, and for low-resource settings and vulnerable populations.
• Coordination is focused on linkages between country-level RCCE efforts and broader humanitarian community engagement and coordination.

GOARN COVID-19 Research

Current activities include:

• Support to the WHO-convened COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science Working Group.
• Support to RCCE tripartite (WHO, UNICEF, IFRC) to identify emerging research needs that GOARN can support and disseminate findings, and support to ad hoc groups to address emerging operational issues. A repository of RCCEresearch and assessment tools is available on the GOARN COVID-19 Knowledge Hub.
• Rapid literature searches and evidence reviews with 24-hour turn-around. Requests are through an online portal supported by Librarian Reserve Corps. Priority is given to GOARN operational partners and WHO technical leads. These outputs are sent directly to the requester and posted on the open access GOARN COVID-19 Knowledge Hub. The Librarian Reserve Corps also curates a daily research publications list that is posted on the open access GOARN COVID-19 Knowledge Hub.
• Support for theintegration of guidance, training, and tools for contact tracing for COVID-19, including communication of practitioners, and links to Field Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETPs), alumni, regional and global networks, WHO and GOARNfield epidemiology partners, and stakeholders, and theGo.Data community.

Countries, territories or areas with reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, April 28, 2020

Country/Territory/Area	Confirmed Cases
United States of America	931698
Spain	207634
Italy	197675
Germany	155193
United Kingdom	152844
France	123279
Turkey	110130
Iran	90481
Russian Federation	87147
China	84341
Brazil	58509
Belgium	46134
Canada	45778
Netherlands	37845
Switzerland	28978
India	27892
Peru	25331
Portugal	23864
Ecuador	22719
Ireland	19262
Sweden	18640
Saudi Arabia	17522
Israel	15398
Austria	15189
Mexico	13842
Singapore	13624
Japan	13385
Chile	13331
Pakistan	13328
Poland	11617
Romania	11036
Republic of Korea	10738
Belarus	10463
United Arab Emirates	10349
Qatar	10287
Ukraine	9009
Indonesia	8882
Denmark	8575
Serbia	8042
Philippines	7579
Norway	7505
Czechia	7404
Australia	6713
Dominican Republic	6135
Malaysia	5780
Panama	5538
Bangladesh	5416
Colombia	5142
Finland	4576
South Africa	4546
Egypt	4534
Morocco	4065
Argentina	3838
Luxembourg	3723
Republic of Moldova	3408
Algeria	3382
Kuwait	3075
Thailand	2931
Kazakhstan	2791
Bahrain	2647
Hungary	2583
Greece	2506
Oman	2049
Croatia	2030
Uzbekistan	1887
Iraq	1820
Armenia	1808
Iceland	1792
Azerbaijan	1645
Estonia	1643
Cameroon	1621
Ghana	1550
Afghanistan	1531
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1516
Lithuania	1449
Slovenia	1407
North Macedonia	1386
Slovakia	1379
Puerto Rico	1371
Cuba	1369
Bulgaria	1300
Nigeria	1273
Côte d’Ivoire	1150
New Zealand	1122
Guinea	1094
Djibouti	1023
Tunisia	949
Bolivia	866
Cyprus	817
Latvia	812
Kosovo	763
Andorra	740
Albania	726
International (Diamond Princess Cruise Ship)	712
Lebanon	707
Niger	696
Kyrgyzstan	695
Costa Rica	693
Senegal	671
Burkina Faso	632
Honduras	627
Uruguay	596
San Marino	538
Sri Lanka	523
Georgia	496
Guatemala	473
Democratic Republic of the Congo	459
Malta	448
Jordan	447
Somalia	436
Réunion	417
Mali	389
Kenya	355
Mayotte	354
Palestinian Territory	342
Mauritius	332
Venezuela	323
Montenegro	321
Isle of Man	308
Jamaica	305
United Republic of Tanzania	300
El Salvador	298
Jersey	280
Vietnam	270
Equatorial Guinea	258
Guernsey	245
Sudan	237
Paraguay	228
Congo	200
Rwanda	191
Maldives	188
Faroe Islands	187
Gabon	176
Martinique	175
Guadeloupe	149
Myanmar	146
Gibraltar	141
Brunei Darussalam	138
Guam	137
Madagascar	128
Liberia	124
Ethiopia	123
Cambodia	122
Trinidad and Tobago	115
Bermuda	109
French Guiana	109
Cabo Verde	106
Aruba	100
Monaco	98
Togo	98
Sierra Leone	93
Zambia	88
Liechtenstein	83
Barbados	79
Bahamas	78
Mozambique	76
Uganda	75
Guyana	74
Sint Maarten	74
Haiti	72
Cayman Islands	70
Benin	64
Libya	61
French Polynesia	57
Eswatini	59
United States Virgin Islands	55
Guinea-Bissau	53
Nepal	51
Chad	46
Syrian Arab Republic	42
Eritrea	39
Mongolia	38
Saint Martin	38
Malawi	34
Zimbabwe	31
Angola	26
Antigua and Barbuda	24
Timor-Leste	24
Botswana	22
Central African Republic	19
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	19
Belize	18
Fiji	18
Grenada	18
New Caledonia	18
Dominica	16
Namibia	16
Burundi	15
Saint Kitts and Nevis	15
Saint Lucia	15
Curaçao	14
Northern Mariana Islands	14
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	14
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	13
Nicaragua	13
Greenland	11
Montserrat	11
Seychelles	11
Turks and Caicos	11
Gambia	10
Suriname	10
Holy See	9
Papua New Guinea	8
São Tomé and Príncipe	8
Bhutan	7
Mauritania	7
British Virgin Islands	6
Saint Barthelemy	6
South Sudan	6
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	5
Anguilla	3
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1
Yemen	1
Total	2,954,222

Recommendations and Advice for the Public

If you are not in an area where COVID-19 is spreading or have not traveled from an area where COVID-19 is spreading or have not been in contact with an infected patient, your risk of infection is low. It is understandable that you may feel anxious about the outbreak. Get the facts from reliable sources to help you accurately determine your risks so that you can take reasonable precautions (see Frequently Asked Questions). Seek guidance from WHO, your healthcare provider, your national public health authority or your employer for accurate information on COVID-19 and whether COVID-19 is circulating where you live. It is important to be informed of the situation and take appropriate measures to protect yourself and your family (see Protection measures for everyone).

If you are in an area where there are cases of COVID-19 you need to take the risk of infection seriously. Follow the advice of WHO and guidance issued by national and local health authorities. For most people, COVID-19 infection will cause mild illness however, it can make some people very ill and, in some people, it can be fatal. Older people, and those with pre-existing medical conditions (such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease or diabetes) are at risk for severe disease (See Protection measures for persons who are in or have recently visited (past 14 days) areas where COVID-19 is spreading).