Sources to follow COVID-19 around the Globe

There are several websites showing updated distribution of COVID-19 cases around the planet. Each of them has a slightly different focus, but the numbers are very similar across all of them.

 The WHO has set up a dashboard to quickly follow the evolution of cases through time globally and per country. It is updated several times a day at discrete times. The best of all, I think, is that the data can be downloaded in bulk. Research and evidence-based policy should benefit from this very much directly.

17-year-old USA high-school student Avi Schiffmann has been tracking cases by the minute since December 2019, before most of us had even heard about coronavirus, as it was known back then. He tries to show actual regional/ municipal location of the confirmed cases. I can say the smaller scale gets imprecise in countries whose health care system doesn't speak English, but the breath of data is really commendable. His numbers are higher that those of WHO, which could be due to him updating numbers as soon as they are available.

   

worldometers keeps a close look at the new counts and the outcome of closed cases, whether it ends up being a death or a recovered patient.

Channel News Asia was also one of the first maps to get out there. They have a useful pop up dialog for each country that gives the summary of cases, deaths and recoveries. The information is updated a bit late, at least for some regions.