Data is taken from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 which should be updated live. Principal contributor: https://github.com/RomainFeron
Data is manually copy-pasted from WHO situation reports https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/.
The purpose of the static R-base plot is to show the exponential growth rate r over time (days).