In our page on COVID-19 deaths, we provide charts and maps on how the number and change in deaths compare across the world. Differences in the population size between countries are often large, and the COVID-19 death count in more populous countries tends to be higher. Students, staff, and faculty may not participate in university travel to high-risk destinations on university travel without prior approval. At what price? In recent weeks, authorities have tightened quarantine restrictions on air crew and reintroduced curbs on social life. The Food & Health Bureau said the global COVID-19 epidemic situation is becoming increasingly severe, with the daily number of new cases rising from around 70,000 to 100,000 between late March and mid-May, and further increasing to a new height of around 660,000 in mid-November. Hong Kong residents returning from the U.K. must stay at a government-run quarantine center, though the city slashed the number of days arrivals must spend there. To enable comparisons across countries it is expressed per million people of the population. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. The government is expected to announce later on Friday that the restrictions will be extended through the Lunar New Year holiday at the start of February. We want everyone to build on top of our work and therefore we always make all our data available for download. HONG KONG, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's government said it would upgrade 15 overseas places including the United States, Spain and France to "high risk" from "medium risk" by Aug. 20, meaning international arrivals from those countries will face lengthened quarantine due to a resurgence of the coronavirus. How many vaccine doses have been administered in total (not population adjusted)? Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionals, Reporting by Marius Zaharia Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. What is the weekly number of confirmed cases? If a person receives the first dose of a 2-dose vaccine, this metric goes up by 1. | Contact Us | Newsletter | Annual & Transparency Report. Since reporting can vary significantly from day to day irrespectively of any actual variation of cases it is helpful to look at a longer time span that is less affected by the daily variation in reporting.