Fig. 9From: Should we remain hopeful? The key 8 weeks: spatiotemporal epidemic characteristics of COVID-19 in Sichuan Province and its comparative analysis with other provinces in China and global epidemic trendsA scatter plot of confirmed cases. *The ordinate represents the daily growth number of confirmed cases. The solid circles indicate the countries with the top 10 confirmed cases. The hollow circles indicate the countries with the top 10 populations. The solid circles suggest that when the daily increase exceeded 20–30 cases, most countries entered an obvious increase stageBack to article page