The coronavirus outbreak happened in Wuhan , China , prior to the pandemic , according to social media .
Pandemics such as the 1918 Spanish flu and the 2010s cases of Ebola are often compared to the recent coronavirus pandemic ( although there has been debate on the similarity between the 1918 flu and the 2020 virus ) , however the use of the internet and social media reportedly sets this apart from the rest.. The total number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) were 2,083,304 in world and 210 countries are infected till April 15 , 2020
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on social media