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Any countries that DON'T have CV?

150 replies

KenDodd · 20/03/2020 21:01

Particularly island nations that have managed to keep it out? I hope so but don't think there are any, not with significant populations anyway.

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bigbluebus · 20/03/2020 22:31

Boa Vista, Cape Verde had its first confirmed case today - a British tourist. They also have a 2nd suspected case. They were still allowing flights in from the UK until Tuesday so it was inevitable really. So sad as they don't have a hospital and healthcare of any sort is minimal.

Bearbehind · 20/03/2020 22:32

Mali is another

Only 6 left

AuldAlliance · 20/03/2020 22:33

Fuck knows what's happening on Diego Garcia...

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 20/03/2020 22:35

Belize?

PenguinsOnParade · 20/03/2020 22:37

The Holy See has one case.

Parkandride · 20/03/2020 22:51

Ooh I love an uncontacted tribe, thank you for introducing me to sentinel island @aliasname

FlamingoAndJohn · 20/03/2020 23:23

What about St Helena? (Yes I know it’s not a country.) They are so goddam remote that they could easily cut them selves off from it.
In fact, it must be quite scary in somewhere like that just watching the news and worrying. They are so reliant on supplies from other countries.
(My dad has had to go there for work.)

Babysharkdoodoodood · 20/03/2020 23:32

Schools in Turks & Caicos are closed now. No ICU facilities there so the 1 case (tourist) had to be flown to Dominican Republic

nopointinstaying · 20/03/2020 23:34

The question is totally irrelevant and just an attempt to say that nowhere is safe. Dont feed the troll.

titchy · 20/03/2020 23:48

The question is totally irrelevant and just an attempt to say that nowhere is safe. Dont feed the troll.

Eh? It's not trolly at all. It's quite interesting to note that in 2020 every single nation is entwined enough with all the other nations of the world to contract the same disease within 12 weeks.

In fact that's absolutely phenomenal if you think about it. Wow.

DianaT1969 · 20/03/2020 23:51

I wondered if Richard Branson had headed back to his island. I imagine he'd have all imports by plane cleaned and left in storage for 3 days. Plus a small clinic set up with respiratory beds.

nopointinstaying · 20/03/2020 23:52

no it isn't phenomenal, it's just an obvious fact of modern life.

What is more interesting for history buffs is that the 1918 flu pandemic was exacerbated by the huge growth of air travel following the end of WWI. Imagine if we had something of the magnitude of that today... youd see the complete failure of so-called civilised society.

PhoneZombie · 20/03/2020 23:52

North Korea appears to be surprisingly Coronavirus free Hmm

buttermilkwaffles · 20/03/2020 23:59

I read that Zimbabwe have none but they don't have the ability to test for it. So if that is accurate then obviously they will have none until they can test.

Also saw a map and figures on Twitter today, think it was 176/196 so 176 countries out of the 196 countries in the world had confirmed cases. Going from memory though, so might be slightly out on both figures...

eaglejulesk · 21/03/2020 00:18

Some of the Pacific Islands don't have any cases - yet!

Greencircle · 21/03/2020 00:34

Bermuda has (from the last I looked) 2 cases.

titchy · 21/03/2020 00:41

It is phenomenal - we're a globe of 200 countries, 8bn people, and despite all our differences, uniqueness, etc, just a few weeks and we've all been in contact with each other. We are all less than 6 degrees away from each other.

Damnloginpopup · 21/03/2020 02:57

Laos. I should be there now.

MMN123 · 21/03/2020 03:16

Belize
Botswana
Burundi
Comoros
Dominica
Eritrea
Grenada
Guinea-Bissau
Kiribati
Laos
Lesotho
Libya
Malawi
Mali
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nauru
Niger
North Korea
Palau
St Kitts and Nevis
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Syria
Tajikistan
Timor-Leste
Tongo
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Pollyputthepizzaon · 21/03/2020 03:19

Alderney has no cases yet.

SociallyDistanced · 21/03/2020 03:22

We're an island nation. We could have stopped this if we'd closed our borders.
Ironically, I dont think the Government or British public had the stomach for the economical impact and travel restrictions that would have caused!

cantfindausername2 · 21/03/2020 04:02

Tasmania is part of Australia. It has cases but has closed borders now.

cantfindausername2 · 21/03/2020 04:03

The holy see has 1 case.

BarbaraofSeville · 21/03/2020 04:20

It's quite interesting to note that in 2020 every single nation is entwined enough with all the other nations of the world to contract the same disease within 12 weeks

Indeed, I was interested to note that one of the first places outside China and northern Italy to report a case was in La Gomera, one of the smaller Canary Islands that you can only get to via Tenerife. I think the person who had it had been on a ski-ing holiday in northern Italy.

The Falkland Islands appear to be CV free and I don't think there were any reported cases in Orkney last time I looked, although they were in Shetland. Plenty of travel in and out of Scotland and the wider world, but less tourism related travel in winter, so aiding isolation before it was implemented across the rest of the UK.

North Korea is saying nothing, I wouldn't be surprised if they had it because there is unofficial travel into China I believe, although maybe not the regions of China where the virus is present?

I suppose the figures for smaller less developed nations may not be reliable if they don't have established health surveillance programmes, although if infected persons haven't got there, they could be virus free. Nothing on the map for Papua New Guinea or West Papua (I think that's what it's called, the other half of the island that PNG is part of).

Russia's reported cases are low for the population size, and they do have plenty of international travel in and out.

Womenwotlunch · 21/03/2020 05:00

Some of the African countries don’t have any cases or very few. Countries such as Uganda have been very strict and have not allowed people from other countries to enter Uganda . In fact, some Europeans were deported after they refused to self isolate