Coronavirus data: It's slowly getting better

In the previous data report, we compared the novel coronavirus with SARS. But looking at the scale of the new virus and at how fast the number of confirmed cases has grown, the 2019-nCoV looks very different from the 2003 strain. For this reason, in this report, the novel coronavirus will be solely under focus.

The growth of new confirmed cases seems to be massive, in thousands every day, to be exact. But at the same time, the growth rate is actually slowing down from its peak of around 65 percent to less than 30.

Online voices have claimed that data on confirmed cases is "useless" because of a shortage of test kits, which makes sense because each case can only be confirmed by test kit results.

But when focusing on data related to suspected cases – people in close contact with confirmed patients, or showing symptoms of pneumonia, which may or may not be caused by novel coronavirus - this has nothing to do with test kits and can work as an indicator for the spread of coronavirus.

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Coronavirus data: It's slowly getting better