As of 12 March , among nations with at least one million citizens , Italy has the world 's highest per capita rate of positive coronavirus cases at 206.1 cases per million people , having more confirmed cases than all of mainland China excluding Hubei province ; and is the country with the second-highest number of positive cases as well as of deaths in the world , after mainland China .
Italy has the world 's highest per capita rate of positive coronavirus cases , 3.6 x times the rate of China .