Coronavirus job retention scheme

Coronavirus: 2.5m infected, 166, 053 dead worldwide

Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/
Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop
World 2,425,118 18,543 166,053 1,022 636,187 1,622,878 54,318 311 21.3    
USA 764,265 40,565 71,012 652,688 13,566 2,309 123 3,861,596 11,666
Spain 200,210 1,536 20,852 399 80,587 98,771 7,371 4,282 446 930,230 19,896
Italy 178,972 23,660 47,055 108,257 2,635 2,960 391 1,356,541 22,436
France 152,894 19,718 36,578 96,598 5,744 2,342 302 463,662 7,103
Germany 145,743 1 4,642 91,500 49,601 2,889 1,740 55 1,728,357 20,629
UK 120,067   16,060   N/A 103,663 1,559 1,769 237 482,063 7,101
Turkey 86,306 2,017 11,976 72,313 1,922 1,023 24 634,277 7,521
Iran 83,505 1,294 5,209 91 59,273 19,023 3,389 994 62 353,012 4,203
China 82,747 12 4,632 77,084 1,031 81 57 3
Russia 47,121 4,268 405 44 3,446 43,270 8 323 3 2,050,000 14,047
Belgium 39,983 1,487 5,828 145 8,895 25,260 1,071 3,450 503 161,896 13,969
Brazil 39,144 490 2,484 22 22,130 14,530 6,634 184 12 62,985 296
Canada 35,056 1,587 11,843 21,626 557 929 42 549,349 14,555
Netherlands 33,405 750 3,751 67 250 29,404 1,176 1,950 219 171,415 10,004
Switzerland 27,944 204 1,406 13 17,800 8,738 386 3,229 162 224,442 25,933
Portugal 20,863 657 735 21 610 19,518 215 2,046 72 235,878 23,133
India 17,615 559 2,854 14,202 13 0.4 401,586 291
Peru 15,628 400 6,811 8,417 167 474 12 143,745 4,360
Ireland 15,251 610 77 14,564 294 3,089 124 90,646 18,358
Austria 14,795 46 470 18 10,631 3,694 194 1,643 52 182,949 20,313
Sweden 14,777 392 1,580 40 550 12,647 521 1,463 156 74,600 7,387
Israel 13,654 163 173 1 3,872 9,609 150 1,577 20 240,303 27,763
Japan 10,797 236 1,159 9,402 217 85 2 112,816 892
S. Korea 10,674 13 236 2 8,114 2,324 55 208 5 563,035 10,982
Saudi Arabia 10,484 1,122 103 6 1,490 8,891 97 301 3 180,000 5,170
Chile 10,088 133 4,338 5,617 360 528 7 113,649 5,945
Ecuador 9,468 474 1,061 7,933 124 537 27 31,809 1,803
Poland 9,453 166 362 2 1,133 7,958 160 250 10 214,236 5,661
Romania 8,936 190 460 9 2,017 6,459 261 465 24 98,491 5,120
Pakistan 8,418 70 176 8 1,970 6,272 46 38 0.8 104,302 472
Mexico 8,261 764 686 36 2,627 4,948 207 64 5 49,570 384
Singapore 8,014 1,426 11 768 7,235 22 1,370 2 94,796 16,203
Denmark 7,515 131 364 9 4,312 2,839 84 1,297 63 96,244 16,616
UAE 7,265 484 41 1,286 5,938 1 735 4 767,000 77,550
Norway 7,103 25 165 32 6,906 58 1,310 30 143,255 26,425
Czechia 6,787 41 188 2 1,311 5,288 84 634 18 172,123 16,073
Indonesia 6,760 185 590 8 747 5,423 25 2 43,749 160
Australia 6,619 7 71 4,258 2,290 49 260 3 431,734 16,931
Philippines 6,459 200 428 19 613 5,418 1 59 4 59,928 547
Serbia 6,318 122 753 5,443 120 723 14 38,701 4,429
Qatar 6,015 567 9 1 555 5,451 37 2,088 3 64,620 22,429
Ukraine 5,710 261 151 10 359 5,200 45 131 3 58,093 1,328
Malaysia 5,425 36 89 3,295 2,041 45 168 3 108,216 3,344
Belarus 4,779 47 494 4,238 65 506 5 98,231 10,396
Dominican Republic 4,680 226 363 4,091 114 431 21 15,583 1,436
Panama 4,467 194 126 6 165 4,176 98 1,035 29 19,091 4,425
Finland 3,868 85 98 4 1,700 2,070 67 698 18 59,200 10,685
Colombia 3,792 179 711 2,902 98 75 4 62,746 1,233
Luxembourg 3,550 73 627 2,850 31 5,671 117 33,666 53,781
South Africa 3,158 54 903 2,201 36 53 0.9 114,711 1,934
Egypt 3,144 239 732 2,173 31 2 55,000 537
Morocco 2,990 135 143 2 340 2,507 1 81 4 15,736 426
Bangladesh 2,948 492 101 10 85 2,762 1 18 0.6 26,604 162
Argentina 2,941 136 2 737 2,068 123 65 3 32,712 724
Thailand 2,792 27 47 1,999 746 61 40 0.7 142,589 2,043
Algeria 2,629 375 1,047 1,207 40 60 9 6,500 148
Moldova 2,472 68 1 457 1,947 212 613 17 11,763 2,916
Greece 2,235 113 269 1,853 67 214 11 53,290 5,113
Kuwait 1,995 80 9 2 367 1,619 39 467 2
Hungary 1,984 68 199 10 267 1,518 60 205 21 48,057 4,975
Bahrain 1,895 14 7 769 1,119 2 1,114 4 89,225 52,437
Croatia 1,881 10 47 771 1,063 18 458 11 26,610 6,482
Kazakhstan 1,775 99 19 2 428 1,328 22 95 1 117,949 6,282
Iceland 1,771 9 1,291 471 3 5,190 26 41,091 120,416
Uzbekistan 1,582 17 5 261 1,316 8 47 0.1 136,000 4,063
Iraq 1,539 82 1,009 448 38 2 56,147 1,396
Estonia 1,535 7 40 165 1,330 9 1,157 30 40,930 30,855
New Zealand 1,440 9 12 974 454 3 299 2 86,305 17,897
Oman 1,410 144 7 238 1,165 3 276 1
Azerbaijan 1,398 19 712 667 21 138 2 95,747 9,443
Armenia 1,339 48 22 2 580 737 30 452 7 13,373 4,513
Slovenia 1,335 5 77 3 193 1,065 26 642 37 41,802 20,107
Lithuania 1,326 28 37 2 242 1,047 17 487 14 66,352 24,374
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,309 24 49 1 381 879 4 399 15 18,538 5,650
North Macedonia 1,225 18 54 3 200 971 9 588 26 11,870 5,697
Slovakia 1,173 12 13 1 251 909 8 215 2 46,734 8,560
Ghana 1,042 9 99 934 4 34 0.3 68,591 2,207
Cuba 1,035 34 255 746 16 91 3 26,982 2,382
Afghanistan 1,026 30 33 131 862 7 26 0.8 6,422 165
Hong Kong 1,026 4 630 392 8 137 0.5 131,786 17,579
Cameroon 1,017 42 305 670 33 38 2
Bulgaria 915 21 43 1 167 705 36 132 6 26,417 3,802
Tunisia 879 38 43 798 33 74 3 16,098 1,362
Ivory Coast 847 9 260 578 32 0.3
Djibouti 846 2 102 742 856 2 8,144 8,243
Cyprus 767 12 81 674 15 635 10 34,087 28,233
Latvia 739 12 5 88 646 5 392 3 36,668 19,440
Andorra 713 36 235 442 17 9,228 466 1,673 21,653
Diamond Princess 712 13 644 55 7
Lebanon 677 4 21 102 554 27 99 3 20,929 3,066
Costa Rica 660 5 112 543 14 130 1 10,417 2,045
Niger 648 20 117 511 27 0.8 4,715 195
Nigeria 627 21 170 436 2 3 0.1 7,153 35
Albania 584 22 26 327 231 5 203 9 5,775 2,007
Guinea 579 5 87 487 44 0.4
Burkina Faso 576 36 338 202 28 2
Kyrgyzstan 568 14 7 2 201 360 5 87 1 26,147 4,008
Bolivia 564 44 33 1 31 500 3 48 3 3,569 306
Uruguay 528 11 10 298 220 13 152 3 13,207 3,802
Channel Islands 488 21 73 394 2,807 121 3,320 19,095
Honduras 477 5 46 25 406 10 48 5 2,535 256
San Marino 461 39 60 362 4 13,586 1,149 1,711 50,426
Palestine 449 10 3 71 375 88 0.6 17,329 3,397
Malta 431 4 3 126 302 2 976 7 23,253 52,663
Taiwan 422 2 6 203 213 18 0.3 53,632 2,252
Jordan 417 7 276 134 5 41 0.7 29,000 2,842
Réunion 408 237 171 4 456
Georgia 399 5 4 93 302 6 100 1 5,027 1,260
Senegal 377 10 5 2 235 137 1 23 0.3
Mauritius 328 9 208 111 3 258 7 9,755 7,670
DRC 327 25 27 275 4 0.3
Montenegro 311 3 5 55 251 7 495 8 3,874 6,168
Sri Lanka 303 32 7 97 199 1 14 0.3 6,463 302
Isle of Man 299 1 6 200 93 11 3,516 71 2,465 28,989
Guatemala 289 32 7 21 261 3 16 0.4 7,200 402
Kenya 281 11 14 69 198 2 5 0.3 13,872 258
Mayotte 271 4 117 150 5 993 15 1,850 6,781
Vietnam 268 214 54 8 3 206,253 2,119
Venezuela 256 9 117 130 4 9 0.3 336,169 11,822
Mali 224 14 42 168 11 0.7
El Salvador 218 17 7 46 165 2 34 1 12,210 1,882
Paraguay 208 2 8 46 154 1 29 1 4,950 694
Jamaica 196 23 5 27 164 66 2 1,809 611
Faeroe Islands 185 176 9 3,786 6,021 123,222
Tanzania 170 7 11 152 4 3 0.1
Somalia 164 7 3 154 2 10 0.4
Martinique 163 12 73 78 11 434 32
Congo 160 17 6 16 138 29 1
Guadeloupe 148 8 73 67 13 370 20
Rwanda 147 76 71 11 6,959 537
Brunei 138 1 116 21 2 315 2 11,633 26,591
Gibraltar 132 120 12 1 3,918 1,912 56,751
Cambodia 122 107 15 1 7 5,768 345
Madagascar 121 41 80 1 4 2,357 85
Trinidad and Tobago 114 8 21 85 81 6 1,335 954
Myanmar 111 5 7 99 2 0.09 4,786 88
Ethiopia 111 3 3 16 92 1 1 0.03 7,953 69
Gabon 109 1 7 101 49 0.4 572 257
Aruba 97 2 49 46 4 909 19 1,442 13,506
French Guiana 97 1 69 28 2 325
Monaco 94 3 22 69 3 2,395 76
Sudan 92 26 12 2 8 72 2 0.3
Liberia 91 8 7 76 18 2
Bermuda 86 5 35 46 10 1,381 80 638 10,244
Togo 84 5 52 27 10 0.6 4,295 519
Liechtenstein 81 1 55 25 2,124 26 900 23,605
Equatorial Guinea 79 4 75 56 854 609
Barbados 75 5 19 51 4 261 17 1,035 3,602
Sint Maarten 67 10 12 45 6 1,563 233 163 3,802
Cabo Verde 67 6 1 1 65 121 2
Guyana 65 7 9 49 4 83 9 322 409
Zambia 61 3 33 25 1 3 0.2 2,586 141
Cayman Islands 61 1 7 53 3 928 15 702 10,681
Bahamas 60 9 11 40 1 153 23
Maldives 60 8 16 44 1 111 3,714 6,871
French Polynesia 55 2 53 1 196 1,302 4,635
Uganda 55 28 27 1 12,565 275
Benin 54 19 1 27 26 4 0.08
Libya 51 1 11 39 7 0.1 725 106
Guinea-Bissau 50 3 47 25 1,500 762
Haiti 47 3 44 4 0.3 498 44
Macao 45 22 23 1 69
Sierra Leone 43 8 6 37 5
Syria 39 3 5 31 2 0.2
Eritrea 39 3 36 11
Mozambique 39 8 31 1 1,037 33
Saint Martin 37 2 19 16 5 957 52
Chad 33 8 25 2
Mongolia 33 1 7 26 10 1,554 474
Nepal 31 4 27 1 29,567 1,015
Zimbabwe 25 3 2 20 2 0.2 2,851 192
Angola 24 2 6 16 0.7 0.06
Antigua and Barbuda 23 3 3 17 1 235 31 73 745
Eswatini 22 1 8 13 19 0.9 714 615
Timor-Leste 22 3 1 21 17
Botswana 20 1 19 9 0.4 4,432 1,885
Laos 19 2 17 3 1,349 185
Belize 18 2 2 14 1 45 5 651 1,637
Fiji 18 1 3 15 20
New Caledonia 18 15 3 1 63 3,399 11,906
Malawi 17 2 3 12 1 0.9 0.1 429 22
Dominica 16 8 8 222 345 4,793
Namibia 16 6 10 6 524 206
Saint Kitts and Nevis 15 1 15 282 247 4,643
Saint Lucia 15 11 4 82 344 1,873
Curaçao 14 1 11 2 85 6 286 1,743
Grenada 14 6 8 4 124 92 818
CAR 12 4 8 2
St. Vincent Grenadines 12 1 11 108 87 784
Turks and Caicos 11 1 10 284 26 83 2,144
Falkland Islands 11 3 8 3,161 319 91,667
Greenland 11 11 0 194 1,043 18,372
Montserrat 11 2 9 1 2,204 36 7,212
Seychelles 11 5 6 112
Nicaragua 10 2 6 2 2 0.3
Gambia 10 1 2 7 4 0.4 316 131
Suriname 10 1 6 3 17 2
MS Zaandam 9 2 7
Vatican City 8 2 6 9,988
Mauritania 7 1 6 0 2 0.2 913 196
Papua New Guinea 7 7 0.8 167 19
St. Barth 6 5 1 607
Western Sahara 6 6 10
British Virgin Islands 5 1 1 3 1 165 33
Burundi 5 1 4 0 0.4 0.08 80 7
Bhutan 5 2 3 6 8,107 10,507
Caribbean Netherlands 5 5 191 110 4,195
Sao Tome and Principe 4 4 18 19 87
South Sudan 4 4 0.4
Anguilla 3 1 2 200
Saint Pierre Miquelon 1 1 173
Yemen 1 1 0.03
Total: 2,425,118 18,543 166,053 1,022 636,187 1,622,878 54,318 311.1 21.3    
Coronavirus job retention scheme
Coronavirus job retention scheme
Deserted London Tube
Deserted London Tube

The UK Government’s Furlough scheme has opened for applications, with business groups warning that delays in payment could be catastrophic for British businesses.

Through the job retention scheme, employers can claim for a cash grant to cover up to 80 per cent of their staff wages capped at £2, 500 a month,

HMRC has set up a new online portal which opened at 7 am and saw claims covering 67, 000 workers’ wages in the first half-hour. The Treasury says funds to pay workers will be transferred to company’s bank account within six working days.

According to Adam marshall director-general of the British Chamber of Commerce “ our research indicates that two-thirds of firms have furloughed some portion of their workforce. Low wage workers in hospitals, supermarkets, and other workplaces must risk their health to keep the country running. Chancellor Rishi Sunak says “We promised support would be available by the end of April –today, we deliver our promise.” The Treasury says the system can process up to 450, 000 applications an hour. On Friday Mr. Sunak announced that the wage subsidy scheme would be extended by a further month, until the end of June.

Germany eases coronavirus restrictions on shops as rates of infection slowed down there.