Of the 200 or so countries and territories in the world, 181 have reported at least one case of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, according to the count being kept by the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus resource center. The pandemic, which emerged in late December in Wuhan, China, has spread across the world at an alarming rate — topping 1 million cases as of April 2. The virus is nearly everywhere.
What should we make of the countries that have not reported cases? Are they unable to test? Are they lying? Are they that isolated?
The bulk of the states that have not yet reported cases are small Pacific Island nations, followed by a handful in Asia and Africa.
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