Information about the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to unfold. Since this virus has never been seen before, researchers are scrambling to understand the infection and mortality rates, how it spreads and how it can be treated.

Engineers from Johns Hopkins created an online digital database that gets updated every day with the number of confirmed cases, deaths and the total number of tests conducted for reporting countries. The mortality rate can be found by taking the total number of deaths and dividing by the total number of confirmed cases.