Coronavirus COVID-19 in China - statistics & facts

A SARS-like virus, coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (formally known as 2019-nCoV) spread around the globe since its outbreak in Wuhan city in China. As of the time of writing, about 411,000 people in Greater China had contracted the coronavirus. Globally, the virus has infected about 178 million people so far and caused around 6.1 million deaths. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the economy of the "world's factory".