COVID-19 Outbreak: Sunday Stats (March 29th 2020)

4 min readMar 30, 2020

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This article is an attempt to summarize some important descriptive data insights for the top 10 most impacted countries by the number of confirmed cases to date.

The analysis is based on numbers gathered on March 29th 2020 and are susceptible to change as spread and government measures around COVID-19 pandemic change rapidly.

The criteria in choosing the 10 countries for analysis is based on the number of confirmed cases. However, other metrics such as Mortality Rate, Recovery Rate and Testing Rate are as important as the number of confirmed cases, they have not been included as the primary basis to select countries. It is understandable that other countries might be impacted as much as the ones that are selected here and this article does not imply otherwise.

A list of metrics definitions and references have been provided at the end of the article.

1. The United States of America (USA)

USA becomes the country with the highest number of confirmed world-wide coronavirus cases (March 26th 2020).
# Reported deaths doubled within the last 2 days — 2,438 cases.
Travel advisory issued to residents of 3 states — New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The nation passed 10,000 cases on March 19 and on Thursday became the country with the most confirmed cases (partially due to the increase in testing capacity).

2. Italy

# Deaths — 10,779, the highest coronavirus death toll in the world.
% Highest Mortality Rate in the world — 11%.
Old people (> 60 years) per 1000 population — 228, second highest in the world.

High mortality rates can be attributed to an elderly population, an overwhelmed medical system and prioritized testing for people with severe symptoms.

3. China

# Recovered cases — 75,448, highest globally.
# New cases reported in Wuhan in the last 10 days — 1.
% Reactivation rate — 5% to 10%.
Borders closed for most foreigners to restrict spread from imported cases.

4. Spain

# Reported deaths in a day reached 838 — the countries highest daily jump in fatalities.
# Patients in intensive care — 4,400, surpassing the national hospital capacity.

5. Germany

Highest Recovered/ Death Factor — 19 (after China — 23).
Lowest Mortality Rate — 1%, among the top 10 countries with the highest # confirmed coronavirus cases.

Thomas Schaefar, Germany’s finance minister, committed suicide after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

6. France

# Deaths — 2,606, a number that is highly unreported.

Numbers do not include deaths reported by the roughly 7,000 retirement homes and assisted-living facilities across the country, where officials fear the virus risks spreading quickly.

7. Iran

% Highest Recovery Rate — 33% (after China, 93%).
# Hospitalised people with coronavirus-like symptoms — 66,657.

Nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened so far by ingesting methanol across the Iran, where drinking alcohol is banned and where those who do rely on bootleggers.

8. United Kingdom (UK)

# Tested people — 127,737, representing an increase in testing capacity.
Lowest Recovery Rate — 1%

Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major power to announce a positive test result for coronavirus on Friday.

9. Switzerland

# Confirmed Cases per Million Population — 1,741, highest among the top 10 most impacted countries by # confirmed cases.
Inter-country migration from Italy to Switzerland — 68,000 (March 24th 2020).

Migration from within Europe is considered to be the main attribute in the sudden rise in number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Switzerland.

10. Netherlands

# Reported confirmed cases cross Belgium to become 10th most highly impacted country world-wide — 10,866.
Second lowest Recovered/ Dead Ration — 0.32 (after UK — 0.11).

Recovery Rate — 2%
Mortality Rate- 7%

Metrics Definitions:

Recovery rate is defined as # recovered cases/ # confirmed cases (%).
Mortality rate is defined as # deaths/ # confirmed cases (%).
Reactivated cases are defined as # tested positive again after pronounced positive.
All absolute numbers represent only those that have been reported and in no way display an exact situation.
Metrics related with China present a different picture than other countries since it was the first epicenter of COVID-19 outbreak in December last year.

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