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 trends

Table 1 Number and incidence of COVID-19 in different cities of Sichuan Province

City	Population	Number of counties	Confirmed case number	Rank of case number	Incidence /100,000	Rank of incidence
Cheng Du	1633	20	144	1	0^.8818	4
Gan Zi	119^.6	18	78	2	6^.5217	1
Da Zhou	572	7	42	3	0^.7343	5
Nan Chong	644	9	39	4	0^.6056	7
Guang An	324^.1	6	30	5	0^.9256	3
Ba Zhong	332^.2	5	24	6	0^.7225	6
Lu Zhou	432^.4	7	24	6	0^.555	9
Nei Jiang	369^.9	5	22	8	0^.5948	8
Mian Yang	485^.7	9	21	9	0^.4324	12
De Yang	354^.5	6	19	10	0.536	10
Sui Ning	320^.2	5	17	11	0^.5309	11
Pan Zhi Hua	123^.6	5	15	12	1^.2136	2
Liang Shan	490^.8	17	15	13	0^.3056	15
Yi Bin	455^.6	10	12	14	0^.2634	17
Zi Gong	292	6	9	15	0^.3082	14
Mei Shan	298^.4	6	8	16	0^.2681	16
Ya An	154	8	6	17	0^.3896	13
Guang Yuan	266^.7	7	6	17	0^.225	18
Zi Yang	251^.2	3	4	19	0^.1592	19
Le Shan	326^.7	11	3	20	0^.0918	21
A Ba	94^.4	13	1	21	0^.1059	20
Subtotal^a	8341	183	539		0^.6462
Overseas imported cases			21
Imported case after Wuhan unsealed			1
Total			561

^aIn Sichuan, up to March 4, a total of 21 cities had been reported (covering all the city-level geographical units), with a subtotal number of 539 confirmed cases and an incidence of 0.6432/100,000. The subtotal number was for the confirmed first wave. It did not contain 21 overseas imported cases reported from March 17 to April 6 and only one was imported from Wuhan after Wuhan was unsealed. Wuhan was unsealed on April 8, and this case was reported on April 17. All 22 cases were discovered in the observation period after they returned to Chengdu and did not cause secondary transmissions

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