Last updated: September 20, 2020, 01:24 GMT

Coronavirus Cases

Total Cases (worldwide)

See also: Data Table by Country

"Total Cases" = total cumulative count (30,982,249). This figure therefore includes deaths and recovered or discharged patients (cases with an outcome).

Daily Cases (worldwide)

spike observed on Feb. 12 is the result, for the most part, of a change in diagnosis classification for which 13,332 clinically (rather than laboratory) confirmed

Growth Factor of Daily New Cases

Thecases were all reported as new cases on Feb. 12, even though they were diagnosed in the preceding days and weeks. We will distribute these cases over the correct period once the analysis being conducted by the WHO with China's NHC is completed. See also:

Growth factor is the factor by which a quantity multiplies itself over time. The formula used is every day's new cases / new cases on the previous day. For example, a quantity growing by 7% every period (in this case daily) has a growth factor of 1.07.

A growth factor above 1 indicates an increase, whereas one which remains between 0 and 1 it is a sign of decline, with the quantity eventually becoming zero, whereas a growth factor constantly above 1 could signal exponential growth