SARS-CoV-2 virus and Covid-19 infection

Information Sources

This page contains links to information sources on SARS-CoV-2 virus & COVID-19 disease. I have attempted to include only information from reliable sources and avoid journalistic tittle-tattle. Some of the web pages and documents are not in English; Google translate may help but be careful as it is not always a 100% correct translation.

General Online Resources

• Situation update worldwide - ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Global Map of Covid19 (live) atJohns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
• Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation dashboard (WHO)
• Robert Koch Institut Home Page in English
• SARS-CoV-2 Steckbrief zur Coronavirus-Krankheit-2019 (COVID-19) in German {SARS-CoV-2 brief summary of Coronavirus-Disease-2019} [Robert Koch-Institut]
• Coronavirus: the new disease Covid-19 explained [South China Morning Post]
• Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and risk in the UK
• Map of COVID 19 Cases UK)
• Coronavirus: action plan: A guide to what you can expect across the UK (pdf)
• Travel advice: coronavirus (COVID-19) (UK Government
• Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19), WHO (World Health Organisation
• UCL graphs - Mark Handley

Reseach Papers

• Virological assessment of hospitalized cases of coronavirus disease 2019, Wölfel R, et al [Preprint from medRxiv]
• "How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?" Roy M Anderson, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg, and T Déirdre Hollingsworth, The Lancet (Online) Published:March 09, 2020
• "Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand", Neil M Ferguson et al, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, 16 March 2020 (online)