19 countries without COVID-19

There are 193 countries which are members of the United Nations.

As of 2 April, 19 countries had not reported a Covid-19 case, according to a BBC tally using data from Johns Hopkins University.

The 19 countries without Covid 19 are;

Comoros; Kiribati; Lesotho; Malawi; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Nauru; North Korea; Palau; Samoa; Sao Tome and Principe; Solomon Islands; South Sudan; Tajikistan; Tonga; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Vanuatu, Yemen

Some, experts agree, are likely to have unreported cases. North Korea, for example, is officially on zero, as is war-torn Yemen.

But there are countries where the virus has not landed. Most are small islands with few visitors - in fact, seven of the world’s 10 least-visited places, as per UN data, are free of Covid-19.

That remoteness means one thing: in this age of social-distancing rules, island nations are the original self-isolators.

Source: BBC