The Spatiotemporal Estimation of the Dynamic Risk and the International Transmission of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: A Global Perspective
25 Pages Posted: 28 Feb 2020
Yuan-Chien Lin
National Central University at Taiwan - Research Center for Hazard Mitigation and Prevention
Wan-Ju Chi
National Central University at Taiwan - Research Center for Hazard Mitigation and Prevention
Abstract
An ongoing novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia infection outbreak called COVID-19 started in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. It both spread rapidly to all provinces in China and started spreading around the world quickly through international human movement from January 2020. Currently, the spatiotemporal epidemic transmission patterns, prediction models, and possible risk analysis for the future are insufficient for COVID-19 but we urgently need relevant information, particularly from the global perspective.