Spread and control of COVID-19 in China and their associations with population movement, public health emergency measures, and medical resources

Songmin Ying; Fei Li; Xinwei Geng; Zhouyang Li; Xufei Du; Haixia Chen; Sisi Chen; Min Zhang; Zhehua Shao; Yinfang Wu; Madiha Zahra Syeda; Fugui Yan; Luanqing Che; Bin Zhang; Jian Lou; Shaobin Wang; Zhengming Chen; Wen Li; Ye Shen; Zhihua Chen; Huahao Shen

As of Feb 19 th , 2020, a total of 74,675 confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported in China, with 126 83.1% (62,031) being in Hubei province (Fig. 1A) . The cumulative number of confirmed cases was 127 below 1,000 before Jan 23 rd , 2020, and increased by almost ten-fold by Jan 30 th , 2020. There was a 128 further three-fold increase in the number of confirmed cases by Feb 6 th , 2020, which continues to 129 grow until now, but at much slow pace. In Hubei province the number of daily confirmed cases 130 reached peak on Feb 4 th , 2020 (Fig. 1B) , while in other regions, it reached a plateau on Jan 30 th , 2020, 131 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.