I spent part of yesterday crunching through some global coronavirus numbers as part of the background to a note I'm trying to write on how Asia is doing. The short story is - there is no "Asia", only lots of different countries. Some doing better than others. Don't let that put you off reading it when its out. I will be giving it a plug within these daily notes. But what stands out from looking at all the country data on Coronavirus cases (and there are a lot of countries, enough to seriously test your geography trivia), is that the time it takes for a country to move from the mid-tens of cases to thousands or tens of ... (full story)