Vedant Naik
20/10/2020
In December 2019, cases of severe respiratory illness began to be reported across the city of Wuhan in China. These were caused by a new type of coronavirus, and the disease is now commonly referred to as COVID-19. The number of COVID-19 cases started to escalate more quickly in mid-January and the virus soon spread beyond China's borders. This story has been rapidly evolving ever since, and each day we are faced by worrying headlines regarding the current state of the outbreak. So we need an app to monitor and visualize the growth of the virus globally.
The aim of this site is to complement the above resources by providing several interactive features like the timeline function. There are various regional plots on the site. There are various bubble plots that show the confirmed,active and recovered cases.
The site is updated once daily. At this time of rapid escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the following resources offer the latest numbers of known cases: