Everything you need to know about the coronavirus

Photo by VIVEK PRAKASH/AFP via Getty Images Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of December 2019. The World Health Organization named the disease caused by the virus COVID-19, which references the type of virus and the year it emerged.You can see where and how many cases of the illness have been reported in this map. So far, there have been over 82,000 confirmed cases and 2,810 deaths