Any countries that DON'T have CV?

[KenDodd]

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.

Latest - sad that Belize and Myanmar have it now too:

Botswana
Burundi
Comoros
Guinea-Bissau
Kiribati
Laos
Lesotho
Libya
Malawi
Mali
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
North Korea
Palau
St Kitts and Nevis
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Tajikistan
Tongo
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Yemen

@MMN123

Is that the list of countries that don't have it? Where do you get your info from?

Oh Laos too:

Botswana
Burundi
Comoros
Guinea-Bissau
Kiribati
Lesotho
Libya
Malawi
Mali
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
North Korea
Palau
St Kitts and Nevis
Samoa
São Tomé and Príncipe
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Tajikistan
Tongo
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Yemen

@kendodd
Not from anywhere interesting - I just wrote a list and started crossing them off as it spread and kept going. I didn’t include dependent territories, just countries. Now it’s mostly islands and countries where testing might not be happening.

Lesotho most likely has cases but has no testing capabilities. Possibly the same with Yemen.

It's a fair point about those on the Sentinel Islands not getting it, but guess we'd never know even if they did ... from all I've read they're not exactly keen to engage with the rest of the world's record keeping

Added population size and split into big v small:

Botswana 2.3m
Burundi 11.9m
Guinea-Bissau 1.9m
Lesotho 2.1m
Libya 6.9m
Malawi 19.1m
Mali 20.2m
North Korea 25.8m
Sierra Leone 7.9m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
St Kitts and Nevis 53k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

The first person to die in Zimbabwe was a TV journalist aged 30 (with serious underlying health condition). He's believed to have caught it in New York.

edition.cnn.com/2020/03/23/africa/zimbabwe-broadcaster-dies-coronavirus/index.html

I seem to remember one of the other early African cases (Kenya? Tanzania) was also suspected to have just arrived from the USA. So much for Trump's portrayal of African countries as "shit-holes" from whose citizens America needed protection...

Mail has cases now and Libya.

I'm going on www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I don't trust the numbers in a lot of countries because I assume it's based on actual, confirmed by a lab test, cases. I really hope some small islands still showing to be free of the virus actually are. If they have very little international traffic they might be. I'm less optimistic about African nations, and think they probably all have cases but don't have testing.

Well spotted!

Botswana 2.3m
Burundi 11.9m
Lesotho 2.1m
Malawi 19.1m
North Korea 25.8m
Sierra Leone 7.9m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
St Kitts and Nevis 53k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

It is highly unlikely there are no cases in the Comoros, since there are cases in Mayotte.
They just can't test, I'd imagine.

St Kitts and Nevis now has 2 cases, which means North America joins Europe and South America as continents where every country has cases.

Burundi 11.9m
Lesotho 2.1m
Malawi 19.1m
North Korea 25.8m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
St Kitts and Nevis 53k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

Missed St Kitts. That’s sad - it’s so tiny.

Botswana 2.3m
Burundi 11.9m
Lesotho 2.1m
Malawi 19.1m
North Korea 25.8m
Sierra Leone 7.9m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

Sierra Leone now has a case.

Good news though, St Vincent and the Grenadines had a case, they recovered, and now the country is CV free again (I hope!)

Oh no - Sierra Leone - and Burundi!

Lesotho 2.1m
Malawi 19.1m
North Korea 25.8m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

Sad news. St Vincent is back on the list with two cases.
I think we might pass one million cases today and Spain might overtake Italy for number of cases.

That’s such a pity.

Malawi down too.

Lesotho 2.1m
North Korea 25.8m
South Sudan 11.2m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k
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Over a million cases now, when do you think this'll peak?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52120439

The Falklands now has a confirmed case.

And South Sudan.

I think the virus is still not spreading within the population in most countries with very low numbers. It's just coming from new arrivals into the country so hopefully (?) they might still be able to contain it.

Sadly by the time the first case is detected, it’s most like spread. Don’t think anywhere can contain it. The small countries might be able to avoid it but they need imports so sooner or later it’s likely most will be impacted.

Lesotho 2.1m
North Korea 25.8m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
São Tomé and Príncipe 219k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

A virus particle tried to drift across the border from South to North Korea, but Kim Jong Un saw it, personally shot it down with a surface to air missile, climbed back on his unicorn and proceeded on his way to his daily round of golf, where he scored 19 holes in one. What a guy.

São Tomé isn’t defended by Kim Jong Un and his magical powers, so they have sadly succumbed - first 4 cases today

Lesotho 2.1m
North Korea 25.8m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m
Yemen 29.8m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k

Yemen has it’s first case.

Lesotho 2.1m
North Korea 25.8m
Tajikistan 9.5m
Turkmenistan 6m

Comoros 869k
Kiribati 119k
Marshall Islands 59k
Micronesia 115k
Nauru 11k
Palau 18k
Samoa 198k
Solomon Islands 687k
Tongo 106k
Tuvalu 12k
Vanuatu 307k