The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts

Type Journal Article Author Ewen Callaway Author David Cyranoski Author Smriti Mallapaty Author Emma Stoye Author Jeff Tollefson URL https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00758-2 Rights 2020 Nature Series News Volume 579 Issue 7800 Pages 482-483 Publication Nature Date 18/03/2020 Extra Number: 7800 Publisher: Nature Publishing Group DOI 10.1038/d41586-020-00758-2 Library Catalog www.nature.com Language en Abstract From papers published to carbon emissions to confirmed cases, these data reveal an unprecedented viral outbreak and its impacts around the world. The coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in China's Hubei province, in late 2019. Cases of the disease it causes, COVID-19, grew by several thousand per day in China in late January and early February, the peak of the epidemic there. The number of infections appearing each day has since plummeted in China, owing in large part to containment efforts, but the outbreak is now a global pandemic. Large outbreaks in South Korea, Iran, Italy and elsewhere have propelled a spike in international cases across more than 150 countries.