Table 2.

Outbreak scope.

Content	Epidemic
	SARS	Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Epidemic area	Foshan, Guangdong Province	Wuhan, Hubei
Outbreak time (number of cases)	November 16, 2002 (first case)	December 31, 2019 (27 cases)
Spread time across provinces/regions across the country (up to time and number of regions)	3 months (as of February 17, 2003, more than 20 provinces or territories)	1 month (as of January 31, 2020, 34 provinces or territories)
Spread time across the world’s countries (up to date and number of countries)	9 months (as of August 7, 2003, SARS cases reported in 30 countries)	Not yet determined (as of 11 March, 2020, 106 countries report COVID-19 cases)