Figure 1

source Python library, pyecharts (version number: 1.9.0, URL: https://pyecharts.org/).
(a) Distribution of population across all provincial capital cities, (b) distribution of the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across all provincial capital cities, (c) daily number of COVID-19 infection across all provincial capital cities, (d) adjusted daily number of COVID-19 infection across 18 high infection provincial capital cities, and (e) adjusted daily R in COVID-19 infection across 18 high infection provincial capital cities, China, from 1 January 2020 to 20 March 2020. The two maps in (a,b) were created by an open