In China, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases has exceeded 80,000, resulting in >4000 deaths 1.
Since its emergence in December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a pandemic affecting 216 countries, areas, or territories with > 13 million cases and at least 574,464 deaths as of J1.
