Everything you need to know about the coronavirus

Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of December 2019. The World Health Organization named the disease caused by the virus COVID-19, which references the type of virus and the year it emerged. The WHO declared that the virus is a pandemic.

The Verge is regularly updating this page with all the latest news and analysis.

You can see where and how many cases of the illness have been reported in this map. So far, there have been over 137,000 confirmed cases and 5,088 deaths. Over 69,000 people have recovered from the illness. The vast majority of the illnesses are still in China, but the rate of new cases there has slowed. The...

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