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Covid-19: our explanatory graphics collection

By SCMP GRAPHICS

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How coronavirus is transforming our space and architecture

Public space development and urban design play a key role to respond to the pandemic. Explore our visual story to learn how it's affecting homes, workplaces, hospitals, airports and urban planning.

By Pablo Robles | 1 March, 2021

What’s life in Wuhan like a year after the world’s first lockdown?

Then and now, a visual journey: crowded streets, a lively flow of traffic, large gatherings at parks, and hustle and bustle are back in coronavirus-hit Wuhan.

By SCMP GRAPHICS TEAM | 22 Jan, 2021

What is it like to be in a 14-day quarantine in China? A visual explainer

A graphic diary of our graphic artist going through a 14-day quarantine in China when she travelled there to visit her family

By Han Huang | 14 Jan, 2021

Visualising Hong Kong’s biggest Covid-19 super-spreader event

How a niche social activity triggered more than 700 coronavirus infections during November and December in Hong Kong, giving rise to the largest cluster since the start of the pandemic.

By Marcelo Duhalde | 2 Jan, 2021

Laboratories researching the world’s most deadly viruses - how safe are they?

The world's Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories are repositories of the most deadly pathogens known. Elaborate safety protocols govern their operation, but are they enough?

By Kaliz Lee | 12 Sep, 2020

Was the cost of a mass Covid-19 test good value for Hong Kong?

Beijing joined forces with local authorities to offer Hongkongers a free Covid-19 Universal Community Testing Programme. Was it a success?

By Kaliz Lee, Gigi Choy, Dennis Wong and Darren Long | 28 September, 2020

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China's wildlife trade ban

Pangolins are in particularly high demand for use in Chinese medicine

By Adolfo Arranz | 04 April, 2020

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QUARANTINE OPTIONS FOR INBOUND TRAVELLERS TO HONG KONG

The government closed all but three border checkpoints and set up temporary facilities in response to the community outbreak

By Dennis Wong | 01 May, 2020

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The China National Grid project

A grid worker’s precautionary duties during lockdown in Wuhan

By Adolfo Arranz | 26 March, 2020

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FATALITY RATE IN ITALY BY AGE RANGE AS OF FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Total deaths: 6,798 deaths

By Marcelo Duhalde | 26 March, 2020

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Hospital space in Wuhan

The local government has converted a stadium, convention centres and schools into temporary hospitals

By Adolfo Arranz

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Fatality rate in mainland China by age range as of February 11, 2020

By Marcelo Duhalde

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Beijing’s coronavirus outbreak

Just when China’s capital was thought to be coronavirus-free, a second wave of infections has been traced to a wholesale market in Beijing.

By Han Huang | 25 June, 2020

How the coronavirus transformed human activities globally

About 2.6 billion people have experienced some form of lockdown since the outbreak of the coronavirus

By Pablo Robles | 1 June, 2020

United States passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths

America has lost more of its people to the coronavirus than the Vietnam and Korean wars combined

By Marcelo Duhalde | 28 May, 2020

Coronavirus tests are the best way to contain the pandemic

Testing helps diagnose individuals and governments set policy

By Marcelo Duhalde | 13 May, 2020

Counting the coronavirus crisis

More than 3.6 million people have caught Covid-19

By Adolfo Arranz, Yaser Ibrahim and Pablo Robles | 6 May, 2020

Russia’s Covid-19 surge means China cannot fully relax its guard

China is vulnerable to a new wave of infections from Russia

By Han Huang | 5 May, 2020

A decade of desperation for refugees across the globe

A data visualisation explaining how asylum seekers and refugees on different continents are left in limbo while the world tries to contain the coronavirus

By Marcelo Duhalde | 14 August, 2020

Hong Kong’s tough quarantine and travel restrictions

The Hong Kong government was quick to impose strict measures on inbound travellers to contain the spread of the coronavirus

By Adolfo Arranz | 1 May, 2020

How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains

The coronavirus is putting each link of the food supply chain under stress by disrupting agricultural production, transportation and supermarket sales

By Marcelo Duhalde | 5 May, 2020

Where is Carrie Lam?

Carrie Lam's popularity has risen slightly during the coronavirus crisis and she has two years of her term left to turn things around

By Han Huang | 6 April, 2020

Covid-19 in the halls of power

The world's political and business leaders to have been affected by Coronavirus so far

By Adolfo Arranz | 2 April, 2020

How Europe's coronavirus lockdown nightmare compares to China

Europe failed to learn from China how rapidly coronavirus spreads and is now struggling to cope with surging Covid-19 infections

By SCMP graphics team | 26 March, 2020

Decoding Covid-19: Seven human coronaviruses in seven graphics

There are 200 types of coronaviruses, seven of which are contagious for humans

By Pablo Robles | 16 March, 2020

An in-depth look at China’s wildlife trade

Beijing bans the trade and consumption of wild animals in response to the Covid-19 pandemic

By Adolfo Arranz | 04 March, 2020

Coronavirus: the disease Covid-19 explained

A mystery illness was first reported in Wuhan in China last December. It spread around the world rapidly as Covid-19

By SCMP graphics team | 19 Feburary, 2020

Coronavirus cruise ship: stuck on board the quarantined Diamond Princess

More than 3,000 people are confined inside the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked at Daikoku pier in Yokohama, Japan

By SCMP graphics team | 13 Feburary, 2020

Coronavirus travel bans: the places and airlines restricting China transit

The world’s second-largest economy is finding itself increasingly isolated amid the Covid-19 outbreak

By Dennis Wong | 12 Feburary, 2020

Coronavirus: community outbreak in Hong Kong

It is believed that a community outbreak of the deadly virus in the city is spreading

By Dennis Wong | 1 Feburary, 2020

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