Countries/places without Corona

[miss direct]

I've been using this site to check stats: ncov2019.live

It says 192/195 countries are affected, but I can't find any data about which three countries they are. Does anybody know?

 

[Yossarian]

I think North Korea is one of the only countries that says it hasn't had a single coronavirus case. Nobody believes them.

 

[bimble]

Turkmenistan.

Coronavirus off limits in Turkmenistan | Reporters without borders

The Turkmen authorities are avoiding use of the word “coronavirus” as much as possible in order to deter the spread of information about the pandemic. By doing so, Turkmenistan’s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. It's as if it had never existed...

rsf.org

 

[maomao]

Wikipedia has a more thorough list with a lot more than three.

COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think some of the 192 aren't actually countries.

 

[miss direct]

Ffs. Considering the number of Turkmens (?) here in Turkey, which has huge numbers of cases, sounds extremely unlikely. I live on the same street as the embassy and for weeks it’s been packed outside with crowds (wanting to go back?)

 

[danny la rouge]

I think some of the 192 aren't actually countries.

Thank you Richard. Podium one, remind us what you do for a living?

 

[maomao]

Thank you Richard. Podium one, remind us what you do for a living?

I get 80% of my previous salary to talk shit on the internet.

 

[danny la rouge]

I get 80% of my previous salary to talk shit on the internet.

Just as Morris predicted in News From Nowhere.

 

[N_igma]

I think a few of the Pacific island nations like Vanuatu don’t have any recorded cases...then again they might not have any kits to test people if they do.

 

[frogwoman]

Antarctica hasn't had any

 

[2hats]

North Sentinel Island?

 

[Teaboy]

Any country that claims not to have any cases is either lying or not testing. There will be a few isolated islands where they probably don't have any cases but these are the sort of places that could suffer terribly if / when it does show up on their shores.

 

[miss direct]

It now says 196/195 countries affected (?)

 

[smmudge]

Well if you include Palestine, Taiwan and Kosovo, most people consider there to be 197 nation states. There are a bunch on that list though that aren't nation states (Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Diamond Princess to name a few). So I don't know why they're saying 195 countries, they're going to end up way over that number.

 

[2hats]

Turkmenistan.

Coronavirus off limits in Turkmenistan | Reporters without borders

The Turkmen authorities are avoiding use of the word “coronavirus” as much as possible in order to deter the spread of information about the pandemic. By doing so, Turkmenistan’s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. It's as if it had never existed...

rsf.org

Not having the 'rona has freed them up to concentrate on the important things.