Most of 5.990.590 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the beginning of the epidemic, including at least 2.491.400 people are now considered to be cured.
The number of diagnosed cases does not reflect, however, that a fraction of the real number of infections. Some countries test only for severe cases, others use the tests as a priority for tracing and number of poor countries do not have that capacity screening limited.