Table 1.

Key COVID-19 and telehealth-related parameters for the top 50 countries most affected by the pandemic.

Rank	Country	COVID-19 casesa, n	COVID-19 deathsa, n	Total-RSVsb	ICTc adoption index
1	United States	2,877,238	129,643	96.6	74.35
2	Brazil	1,603,055	64,867	29.9	58.06
3	India	719,665	20,160	13.8	32.11
4	Russia	694,230	10,494	10.3d	77.03
5	Peru	302,718	10,589	46.0	45.70
6	Chile	298,557	6384	74.7	63.13
7	United Kingdom	285,772	44,236	9.2	72.99
8	Mexico	256,848	30,639	6.9	55.03
9	Spain	251,789	28,388	6.9	78.21
10	Iran	243,051	11,731	4.6	50.85
11	Italy	241,819	34,869	9.2	64.49
12	Pakistan	234,509	4839	34.5	25.21
13	Saudi Arabia	213,716	1968	13.8	69.30
14	Turkey	206,844	5241	5.7	57.82
15	South Africa	205,721	3310	12.6	49.67
16	Germany	196,944	9024	5.7	69.98
17	Bangladesh	165,618	2096	41.4	39.14
18	France	159,568	29,831	5.7	73.66
19	Colombia	117,110	4064	32.2	49.89
20	Canada	105,536	8684	100.0	70.29
21	Qatar	100,345	133	13.8	83.78
22	China	85,345	4648	52.9e	78.49
23	Argentina	77,815	1523	11.5	57.99
24	Egypt	76,222	3422	9.2	40.57
25	Sweden	73,061	5433	3.42	87.78
26	Indonesia	64,958	3241	5.7	55.37
27	Belarus	63,804	429	4.6	—f
28	Ecuador	62,380	4821	69.0	47.62
29	Iraq	62,275	2567	0	—
30	Belgium	62,058	9774	3.4	67.02
31	United Arab Emirates	52,068	324	40.2	91.87
32	Netherlands	50,602	6119	8.0	76.29
33	Kuwait	50,644	373	0	69.57
34	Ukraine	49,607	1283	5.7	51.85
35	Kazakhstan	49,683	264	6.9	67.99
36	Oman	47,735	218	0	58.11
37	Philippines	46,333	1303	31.0	49.69
38	Singapore	44,983	26	41.4	87.11
39	Portugal	44,129	1620	16.1	71.24
40	Panama	38,149	747	13.8	50.06
41	Bolivia	39,297	1434	12.6	51.45
42	Dominican Republic	38,128	804	10.3	51.79
43	Poland	36,155	1521	9.2	65.41
44	Afghanistan	33,384	920	0	—
45	Switzerland	32,230	1685	19.5	78.58
46	Israel	30,055	331	9.2	67.56
47	Bahrain	29,821	98	0	67.19
48	Nigeria	29,286	654	10.3	33.39
49	Armenia	29,285	503	0	62.02
50	Romania	29,223	1768	9.2	72.01

^aCOVID-19 case and death numbers as of July 7, 2020.

^bRSV: relative search volume. Total-RSVs were calculated over the evaluation period from January 1 to July 7, 2020.

^cICT: information and communications technology.

^dFor Russia, the RSV value reflects search volumes as measured by GT only. Mean search volumes based on Yandex was 44.3 but was not listed in the table.

^eFor China, the RSV value reflects the mean RSV as measured by the Baidu Index. GT was not applicable for China.

^fNot available.