The World Health Organization was informed of a pneumonia of unknown cause from Wuhan City, China on December 31, 2019. On January 10 gene sequencing found it was a new and novel coronavirus and named 2019-nCoV. It is related to the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
At this time the mortality and transmissibility is unknown but seems to be transmissable before symptoms appear which may be between a few days and 14 days. It appears that about 1 in 50 affected die from the disease. These number may change as the coronavirus is understood more and better statistics become available from China and around the world.
On Thursday coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China.
"The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
John Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering developed an online dashboard mapping system to track reported cases from WHO, CDS, ECDC, China CCDC, NHC and DXY a Chinese website that aggregates NHC and local CCDC situation reports in near real-time.
John Hopkins Map:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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