Latest global tally of Covid-19 deaths, infections

February 18, 2020

By AFP - February 18, 2020 @ 9:03am

BEIJING: The Covid-19 coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year has now killed over 1,800 people and spread around the world.

The latest figures from China show there are more than 72,400 people infected in the country.

Outside mainland China, there have been about 900 infections reported in nearly 30 locations. Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan have each reported one fatality, while France on Saturday announced the first death outside Asia, an elderly Chinese tourist.

Australian evacuees who were quarantined on Christmas Island over concerns about the coronavirus disembark from a plane at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia. -AAP Image/Steven Saphore/via Reuters

Here are the areas where Covid-19 has been confirmed:

As of early Tuesday, 72,436 people have been infected across China, the majority in and around Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, where the outbreak was first reported.

Most of the 1,868 who have died in mainland China were in that region, but officials have confirmed multiple deaths elsewhere, including the capital Beijing.

The fatalities include a US citizen.

This picture taken on February 14, 2020 shows a health quarantine officer (centre) wearing protective gear as she holds a health document to be filled and signed by arriving passengers in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak before passing customs at Daxing international airport in Beijing. -AFP

ASIA

Cruise ship Diamond Princess, quarantined off Japan: 454, plus a quarantine officer. (Some American citizens were flown to the United States, where they are to undergo a further 14-day quarantine.)

Singapore: 77

Japan: 60, including death of one infected woman

Hong Kong: 58, including one death

Thailand: 35

South Korea: 30

Malaysia: 22

Taiwan: 20, including one death

Vietnam: 16

Australia: 15

Macau: 10

India: 3

Philippines: 3, including one death

Nepal: 1

Sri Lanka: 1

Cambodia: 1

A woman wearing a protective mask cycles past graffiti-painted wall at a construction site in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by coronavirus outbreak. -Reuters

NORTH AMERICA

United States: 29

Canada: 8

People wear face masks and plastic raincoats as a protection from coronavirus at Shanghai railway station, in Shanghai, China. -Reuters

EUROPE

Germany: 16

France: 12, including one death

Britain: 9

Italy: 3

Russia: 2

Spain: 2

Finland: 1

Sweden: 1

Belgium: 1

A handout photo from Fresh News shows passengers, who disembark from the Westerdam cruise ship in Sihanoukville, boarding a bus for a visit of the capital Phnom Penh. -AFP/Fresh News

MIDDLE EAST

United Arab Emirates: 9

AFRICA

Egypt: 1 - AFP