COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Oceania on 25 January 2020 with the first confirmed case reported in Melbourne, Australia.^[1] It has since spread elsewhere in the region,^[2] although many small Pacific island nations have thus far avoided the outbreak by closing their international borders.

COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania
Map of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania   10,000+ Confirmed cases   1000-9999 Confirmed cases   100-999 Confirmed cases   10–99 Confirmed cases   1–9 Confirmed cases
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Oceania
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Arrival date	25 January 2020 (5 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days ago)
Confirmed cases	11,014
Recovered	9,945
Territories	10

As of 6 July, ten Oceania sovereign states have yet to report a case - Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated State of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.