Information on the Emergency The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak began in Wuhan Province, China when 44 patients were reported to show symptoms of an unknown disease in December 2019. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As of 28 May 2020 according to WHO, the number of confirmed cases globally has risen to more than 5,593,631 individuals and 353,334 deaths. Of these, in the Asian countries included in this SitRep, the number of confirmed cases is 415,494 and 14,570 deaths.
