COVID-19 pandemic in North America

COVID-19 pandemic in North America
Map last updated: December 2020   <500 confirmed cases   500–1,000   1,000–2,000   2,000–5,000   5,000–10,000   10,000–50,000   50,000–100,000   100,000–200,000   >200,000 confirmed cases
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	North America
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Santa Clara County, California, United States
Arrival date	25th February 2020 - 5 May 2023 (4 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 6 days ago)
Confirmed cases	97 million[1]
Recovered	88.9 million[1]
Deaths	1.4 million[1]
Territories	39[1]

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The first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in North America were reported in the United States on 23 January 2020. Cases were reported in all North American countries after Saint Kitts and Nevis confirmed a case on 25 March, and in all North American territories after Bonaire confirmed a case on 16 April.^[2]

On 26 March 2020, the United States became the country in North America with the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infections, at over 82,000 cases.^[3] On 11 April 2020, the United States became the country in North America with the highest official death toll for COVID-19, at over 20,000 deaths.^[4] As of 10 April 2022, there are about 97 million cases and about 1.4 million deaths in North America; about 88.9 million have recovered from COVID-19, meaning that nearly 11 out of 12 cases have recovered or that the recovery rate is nearly 92%.^[5]

As of 10 April 2022, the United States has had the highest number of cases in North America, at about 82 million cases, as well as the highest death toll, at over a million deaths. There have been nearly 75.7 million recoveries in the United States as of 10 April 2022, meaning that nearly 12 out of 13 cases in the country have recovered or that the recovery rate is about 92%. On 20 March 2022, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States exceeded a million.

As of 10 April 2022, Canada has reported nearly 3.6 million cases and about 38,000 deaths,^[6] while Mexico, which was overtaken in terms of the number of cases on 11 March 2022, the second anniversary of the day when the COVID-19 outbreak became a pandemic, by Japan, the second most affected country in East Asia, has reported about 5.7 million cases and about 320,000 deaths.^[7] The state in the United States with the highest number of cases and the highest death toll is California, at about 9.1 million cases and nearly 90,000 deaths as of 10 April 2022.^[8]