Before revision:  A description of the time dependence of the disease expansion and a method to evaluate trends of the expansionare proposed. Several features are observed in the data, namely a high predictability of the expansion of disease in Italy and a convergence of the "pushback" parameter towards a limiting value in all the countries where restrictive measures have been adopted.
After revision:  A description of the time dependence of the disease are identified and quantified -- early exponential expansion, damped exponential, and linear expansion. Differences among countries in the early expansion period are quantified. The velocity of the expansion of disease in Italy and a convergence of the "pushback" parameter towards a limiting value in all the countries where restrictive measures have been adopted.