“Social distancing get used to it, Covid-19 is not going to be eradicated for the foreseeable future” Chris Whitty

Prof Chris Whitty, the Government’s chief medical adviser said it was “wholly unrealistic” to expect life would suddenly return to normal soon. He also said “in the long run” the ideal way out would be via a “highly effective vaccine” or drugs to treat the disease and warned that the chance of having those within the next calendar year was “incredibly small. This disease is not going to be eradicated, it is not going to disappear. So we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we are going to be with us globally for the foreseeable future”.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, acknowledged the mental, physical and economic strain social distancing measures were having on people throughout the UK but said they “must remain in place for the time being”.

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	2,645,784	10,068	184,326	260	723,196	1,738,262	58,229	339	23.6
USA	849,092	375	47,681	22	84,050	717,361	14,016	2,565	144	4,326,648	13,071
Spain	208,389		21,717		85,915	100,757	7,705	4,457	464	930,230	19,896
Italy	187,327		25,085		54,543	107,699	2,384	3,098	415	1,513,251	25,028
France	159,877		21,340		40,657	97,880	5,218	2,449	327	463,662	7,103
Germany	150,648		5,315		103,300	42,033	2,908	1,798	63	2,072,669	24,738
UK	133,495		18,100		N/A	115,051	1,559	1,966	267	559,935	8,248
Turkey	98,674		2,376		16,477	79,821	1,814	1,170	28	750,944	8,904
Iran	85,996		5,391		63,113	17,492	3,311	1,024	64	377,396	4,493
China	82,798	10	4,632		77,207	959	63	58	3
Russia	62,773	4,774	555	42	4,891	57,327	2,300	430	4	2,401,616	16,457
Brazil	46,182	425	2,924	18	25,318	17,940	8,318	217	14	291,922	1,373
Belgium	41,889		6,262		9,433	26,194	1,020	3,614	540	171,400	14,789
Canada	40,190		1,974		13,986	24,230	557	1,065	52	612,192	16,220
Netherlands	34,842		4,054		N/A	30,538	1,050	2,033	237	171,415	10,004
Switzerland	28,268		1,509		19,900	6,859	386	3,266	174	227,554	26,293
Portugal	21,982		785		1,143	20,054	207	2,156	77	284,741	27,925
India	21,797	427	681		4,376	16,740		16	0.5	500,542	363
Peru	19,250		530		7,027	11,693	396	584	16	170,400	5,168
Ireland	16,671		769		9,233	6,669	147	3,376	156	111,584	22,598
Sweden	16,004		1,937		550	13,517	515	1,585	192	94,500	9,357
Austria	14,925		510		11,328	3,087	176	1,657	57	201,794	22,406
Israel	14,592	94	191	2	5,334	9,067	136	1,686	22	240,303	27,763
Saudi Arabia	12,772		114		1,812	10,846	82	367	3	200,000	5,745
Japan	11,950		299		1,424	10,227	241	94	2	130,587	1,033
Chile	11,296		160		5,386	5,750	399	591	8	128,722	6,734
Singapore	11,178	1,037	12		896	10,270	27	1,911	2	94,796	16,203
Ecuador	10,850		537		1,262	9,051	141	615	30	34,840	1,975
S. Korea	10,702	8	240	2	8,411	2,051	55	209	5	583,971	11,390
Mexico	10,544	1,043	970	113	2,627	6,947	378	82	8	49,570	384
Pakistan	10,513	437	224	12	2,337	7,952	60	48	1	124,549	564
Poland	10,169		426		1,740	8,003	160	269	11	238,799	6,310
Romania	9,710		527	3	2,406	6,777	288	505	27	106,357	5,529
UAE	8,238		52		1,546	6,640	1	833	5	790,000	79,875
Denmark	7,912		384		5,087	2,441	80	1,366	66	108,465	18,726
Indonesia	7,418		635		913	5,870		27	2	55,732	204
Norway	7,338		187		32	7,119	54	1,354	34	148,656	27,421
Belarus	7,281		58		769	6,454	92	771	6	114,955	12,165
Ukraine	7,170	578	187	13	504	6,479	45	164	4	72,296	1,653
Qatar	7,141		10		689	6,442	37	2,479	3	70,012	24,301
Czechia	7,136	4	210	2	2,002	4,924	76	666	20	195,725	18,277
Serbia	7,114		134		1,025	5,955	101	814	15	48,636	5,566
Philippines	6,710		446		693	5,571	1	61	4	68,532	625
Australia	6,660	11	75	1	5,041	1,544	46	261	3	463,713	18,185
Malaysia	5,532		93		3,452	1,987	43	171	3	113,755	3,515
Dominican Republic	5,300		260		581	4,459	135	489	24	18,261	1,683
Panama	4,992	171	144	3	255	4,593	97	1,157	33	22,702	5,261
Colombia	4,356		206		870	3,280	98	86	4	71,500	1,405
Finland	4,129		149		2,000	1,980	63	745	27	68,552	12,372
Bangladesh	3,772		120		92	3,560	1	23	0.7	32,630	198
Egypt	3,659		276		935	2,448		36	3	55,000	537
Luxembourg	3,654		80		711	2,863	32	5,837	128	36,087	57,649
South Africa	3,635		65		1,055	2,515	36	61	1	133,774	2,256
Morocco	3,446		149		417	2,880	1	93	4	19,885	539
Argentina	3,288		159		872	2,257	123	73	4	39,228	868
Algeria	2,910		402		1,204	1,304	40	66	9	6,500	148
Thailand	2,839	13	50	1	2,430	359	61	41	0.7	142,589	2,043
Moldova	2,778		75		560	2,143	212	689	19	11,763	2,916
Greece	2,408		121		577	1,710	55	231	12	56,944	5,463
Hungary	2,284	116	239	14	390	1,655	61	236	25	55,390	5,734
Kuwait	2,248		13		443	1,792	50	526	3
Kazakhstan	2,191	56	19		515	1,657	29	117	1	153,492	8,175
Bahrain	2,027		7		1,026	994	2	1,191	4	97,796	57,474
Croatia	1,950		48		869	1,033	19	475	12	27,614	6,726
Iceland	1,785		10		1,462	313	5	5,231	29	44,468	130,312
Oman	1,716	102	8		307	1,401	3	336	2
Uzbekistan	1,716		7		454	1,255	8	51	0.2	150,000	4,482
Iraq	1,631		83		1,146	402		41	2	62,880	1,563
Estonia	1,559		44		184	1,331	7	1,175	33	43,637	32,895
Armenia	1,523	50	24		659	840	10	514	8	15,960	5,386
Azerbaijan	1,518		20		907	591	14	150	2	108,221	10,674
New Zealand	1,451	3	16	2	1,065	370	2	301	3	101,277	21,002
Lithuania	1,398	28	38		399	961	17	514	14	83,591	30,706
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,368		53		460	855	4	417	16	20,125	6,134
Slovenia	1,353		79		205	1,069	24	651	38	44,435	21,374
Slovakia	1,325	81	15	1	288	1,022	9	243	3	57,421	10,517
North Macedonia	1,259		56		272	931	8	604	27	13,000	6,240
Cuba	1,189		40		341	808	16	105	4	30,416	2,685
Afghanistan	1,176		40		166	970	7	30	1	6,422	165
Cameroon	1,163		43		397	723	33	44	2
Ghana	1,154		9		99	1,046	4	37	0.3	68,591	2,207
Bulgaria	1,081	57	50	1	190	841	37	156	7	27,000	3,886
Hong Kong	1,034		4		678	352	8	138	0.5	131,786	17,579
Djibouti	974		2		183	789		986	2	10,272	10,397
Ivory Coast	952		14		310	628		36	0.5
Tunisia	909		38		190	681	32	77	3	18,861	1,596
Nigeria	873		28		197	648	2	4	0.1	8,003	39
Cyprus	790		13		98	679	15	654	11	37,081	30,712
Latvia	778	17	11		133	634	6	412	6	41,041	21,759
Guinea	761		6		164	591		58	0.5
Andorra	723		37		309	377	17	9,357	479	1,673	21,653
Diamond Princess	712		13		645	54	4
Lebanon	682		22		113	547	26	100	3	22,853	3,348
Costa Rica	681		6		180	495	6	134	1	11,766	2,310
Bolivia	672	63	40	3	44	588	3	58	3	4,420	379
Niger	662		22		193	447		27	0.9	4,832	200
Albania	634		27		356	251	4	220	9	6,269	2,178
Kyrgyzstan	612		7		254	351	5	94	1	26,147	4,008
Burkina Faso	609		39		389	181		29	2
Uruguay	549		12		337	200	10	158	3	14,532	4,183
Honduras	519	9	47	1	31	441	10	52	5	2,535	256
Channel Islands	498		28		285	185		2,864	161	3,320	19,095
San Marino	488		40		62	386	4	14,382	1,179	1,872	55,171
Palestine	474		4		71	399		93	0.8	17,329	3,397
Malta	444		3		165	276	2	1,006	7	26,148	59,220
Senegal	442		6		253	183	1	26	0.4	466	28
Jordan	435		7		315	113	5	43	0.7	36,000	3,528
Taiwan	427	1	6		253	168		18	0.3	58,003	2,435
Georgia	420	4	5		107	308	6	105	1	8,375	2,099
Réunion	410				238	172	2	458
DRC	359		25		45	289		4	0.3
Guatemala	342	26	10	2	25	307	3	19	0.6	7,200	402
Sri Lanka	330		7		105	218	2	15	0.3	7,393	345
Mauritius	329		9		261	59	3	259	7	12,300	9,672
Mayotte	326		4		125	197	4	1,195	15	2,100	7,698
Montenegro	316	1	5		116	195	7	503	8	5,085	8,096
Isle of Man	307		15		212	80	20	3,610	176	2,654	31,211
Kenya	303		14		83	206	2	6	0.3	14,704	273
Venezuela	298		10		122	166	4	10	0.4	347,236	12,211
Mali	293		17		73	203		14	0.8	2,023	100
Somalia	286		8		4	274	2	18	0.5
Tanzania	284		10		11	263	7	5	0.2
Vietnam	268				224	44	8	3		206,253	2,119
Jamaica	252		6		28	218		85	2	2,125	718
El Salvador	250	13	8	1	67	175	2	39	1	15,385	2,372
Paraguay	213		9		62	142	1	30	1	6,292	882
Faeroe Islands	187	2			178	9		3,827		6,375	130,467
Congo	186		6		16	164		34	1
Gabon	166		1		24	141	2	75	0.4	572	257
Martinique	164		14		73	77	6	437	37
Sudan	162	22	13		14	135		4	0.3
Rwanda	153				84	69		12		6,959	537
Guadeloupe	148		12		76	60	13	370	30
Brunei	138		1		117	20	2	315	2	12,149	27,770
Gibraltar	132				127	5		3,918		2,020	59,957
Myanmar	127	4	5		9	113		2	0.09	5,270	97
Cambodia	122				110	12	1	7		5,768	345
Madagascar	121				52	69	1	4		2,357	85
Ethiopia	116		3		21	92		1	0.03	9,771	85
Trinidad and Tobago	115		8		37	70		82	6	1,454	1,039
French Guiana	107		1		84	22	1	358	3
Liberia	101		8		20	73		20	2
Aruba	100		2		68	30	4	937	19	1,504	14,087
Bermuda	99		5		39	55	10	1,590	80	949	15,238
Monaco	94		3		26	65	2	2,395	76
Togo	88		6		56	26		11	0.7	4,733	572
Maldives	86				16	70	2	159		4,139	7,657
Equatorial Guinea	84		1		7	76		60	0.7	854	609
Liechtenstein	81		1		55	25		2,124	26	900	23,605
Barbados	76		6		27	43	4	264	21	1,162	4,043
Zambia	74		3		35	36	1	4	0.2	2,586	141
Sint Maarten	73	2	12	1	22	39	8	1,703	280	266	6,204
Cabo Verde	73		1		1	71		131	2
Guyana	67		7		9	51	5	85	9	348	442
Cayman Islands	66		1		7	58	3	1,004	15	778	11,838
Bahamas	65		9		12	44	1	165	23
Uganda	63				46	17		1		16,057	351
Haiti	62		4		2	56		5	0.4	642	56
Sierra Leone	61				6	55		8
Libya	60		1		15	44		9	0.1	1,181	172
French Polynesia	57				36	21	1	203		1,803	6,418
Benin	54		1		27	26		4	0.08
Guinea-Bissau	50				3	47		25		1,500	762
Nepal	48	3			7	41		2		8,773	301
Macao	45				26	19	1	69
Syria	42		3		6	33		2	0.2
Mozambique	41				8	33		1		1,247	40
Eritrea	39				6	33		11
Saint Martin	38		2		19	17	3	983	52
Mongolia	35				8	27		11		7,156	2,183
Chad	33				8	25		2
Eswatini	31		1		8	22		27	0.9	714	615
Zimbabwe	28		4		2	22		2	0.3	4,990	336
Angola	25		2		6	17		0.8	0.06
Antigua and Barbuda	24		3		10	11	1	245	31	108	1,103
Malawi	23		3		3	17	1	1	0.2	519	27
Timor-Leste	23				1	22		17		322	244
Botswana	22		1			21		9	0.4	4,432	1,885
Laos	19				4	15		3		1,461	201
Belize	18		2		5	11	1	45	5	816	2,052
Fiji	18				8	10		20
New Caledonia	18				17	1	1	63		3,772	13,212
Dominica	16				9	7		222		377	5,237
Namibia	16				6	10		6		524	206
Grenada	15				6	9	4	133		92	818
Saint Kitts and Nevis	15				1	14		282		257	4,831
Saint Lucia	15				15	0		82		364	1,982
Curaçao	14		1		11	2		85	6	302	1,840
CAR	14				10	4		3
St. Vincent Grenadines	13				3	10		117		99	892
Falkland Islands	12	1			11	1		3,448		337	96,839
Burundi	11		1		4	6		0.9	0.08	284	24
Turks and Caicos	11		1		4	6		284	26	83	2,144
Greenland	11				11	0		194		1,150	20,257
Montserrat	11				2	9	1	2,204		36	7,212
Seychelles	11				5	6		112
Nicaragua	10		2		7	1		2	0.3
Gambia	10		1		2	7		4	0.4	316	131
Suriname	10		1		6	3		17	2	404	689
MS Zaandam	9		2			7
Vatican City	9				2	7		11,236
Papua New Guinea	8					8		0.9		604	68
Mauritania	7		1		6	0		2	0.2	969	208
Bhutan	7				3	4		9		8,953	11,603
St. Barth	6				6	0		607
Western Sahara	6				5	1		10
British Virgin Islands	5		1		3	1		165	33
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:	2,645,784	10,068	184,326	260	723,196	1,738,262	58,229	339.4	23.6