Description: Volunteers from an NGO of the Blue Sky Rescue team disinfect at the Qintai Grand Theatre in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 2, 2020.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in Wuhan of China in December 2019. As of 1 October 2021, Reuters reported that it had estimated the worldwide total number of deaths due to COVID-19 to have exceeded five million.