The last places on earth without the coronavirus

By Gurman Bhatia, Manas Sharma

 

FILE PHOTO: Villagers watch the sunset over a small lagoon near the village of Tangintebu on South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati May 25, 2013. REUTERS/David Gray/

 

(Reuters) - Despite infecting more than three million people around the world, there are still 34 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the novel coronavirus.

 

These include Comoros, Lesotho, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and tiny far-flung island nations in the Pacific such as Nauru, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands.

 

(Open tmsnrt.rs/3cUYM31 in an external browser to see an interactive graphic showing the last places on earth to be free of the new coronavirus.)

 

As of April 20, 213 countries and territories of the 247 recognised by the United Nations have seen at least one case of the COVID-19. Of these, 186 have also experienced local transmission — where the virus has spread within the community. There have been deaths in at least 162 of them.

 

Just because a nation has not reported an infection does not necessarily mean there have been no cases.

 

For example, North Korea has not reported any coronavirus cases but it is bordered by China, Russia and South Korea, all countries dealing with a high number of cases, meaning the virus may well have made it into the secretive state.

 

Some trends can be seen by looking at the spread of the coronavirus by regions. Asia experienced roughly two broad waves of transmission across borders, while in Europe, many countries started to report cases in the week from late February.

 

Latin America and Africa looked to be virus-free for January and February before the coronavirus spread rapidly through both continents.

 

Five countries and territories have managed to rid themselves of the virus after reporting cases. These are Anguilla, Greenland, the Caribbean islands of St. Barts and Saint Lucia, and Yemen.

 

None has reported deaths or state any currently active infections, with previous cases having fully recovered.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-29

 

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Wow so many places where the  Chinese haven't gone amazing .

The article and source forgot one.

 

https://www.facebook.com/OperationDEEPFREEZE/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARBK4VMsyW9JsBqy2z_EkFGTXxVnvAKdX3Wk-EozUjy1iMpqOTKpxvRGaFty2r_DlrNz0-Wreb4lAf2J

I chat daily to a fellow radio 'ham' on the Pacific island of Samoa.  No Wuhan flu cases there and no chance of that either 'cos the island is not 'open' to any visitors right now ...

Let’s hope they keep it that way and btw tarawa has allready seen enough hell to last a dozen lifetimes 

that wont stop social warriors from insisting west pays up billions to nauru

in imaginary damages like they do with co2

10 hours ago, khwaibah said:

The article and source forgot one.

 

https://www.facebook.com/OperationDEEPFREEZE/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARBK4VMsyW9JsBqy2z_EkFGTXxVnvAKdX3Wk-EozUjy1iMpqOTKpxvRGaFty2r_DlrNz0-Wreb4lAf2J

I don't waste my time on that media, but assuming you mean Antarctica you beat me to it.

Yemen far out the place rip apart by civil war cant even tell you who got what 

12 hours ago, keith101 said:

Wow so many places where the  Chinese haven't gone amazing .

Their fishing boats are on the way. 

North Korea......???? ........LOL

And some provinces in Thailand?

13 hours ago, simon43 said:

I chat daily to a fellow radio 'ham' on the Pacific island of Samoa.  No Wuhan flu cases there and no chance of that either 'cos the island is not 'open' to any visitors right now ...

I used to be there every 2 weeks (& every other island---high speed cargo ship, about 30 hours in each place) burn out sort of job...... get woken up middle of the night, ask where we are---Pago-Pago. oh its Thursday then.

But Samoa was nice.....Aggie Grays---Mount Vie night club.......this was in the 70s....maybe there gone also.

 

Yes....completely off topic................

 

 

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Edited April 30, 20206 yr by sanuk711

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I don't waste my time on that media, but assuming you mean Antarctica you beat me to it.

It's well known fact that penguins are able to destroy the virus.   And if you need even more proof, not a single household or venue where there have been transmissions, had a penguin!