Countries With Fastest Growth Of COVID-19 Cases

South Korea is poised to surpass 2,000 cases only 6 days after passing 100 cases. Italy also shows fast growth.

Notes

Latest Japan and Italy data as of 3 p.m. Jan. 27 ET. South Korea data as of 6 a.m. Jan. 27 ET. The China data shown is from Jan. 18-25.

Source: Latest numbers for Japan from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; latest numbers for Italy from the Italian Ministry of Health; all other data from The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of Hong Kong, The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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