Coronavirus situation and projections in New Zealand

Arindam Basu
4 min readApr 13, 2020

New Zealand is one of the few countries that seem to have got a control over coronavirus outbreak. Here we present the incidence of Coronavirus in New Zealand as of the third week of April of 2020 and some predictions as to how and when we can expect to get to a point of 0 incident cases in NZ.

## first load the libraries 
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
library(incidence)
library(projections)
library(epitrix)
library(distcrete)
## then obtain the data from JHU CSSE archives on cases
fulldata <

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Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,