On January 8, a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of the pneumonia.[2] The sequence of the virus was soon published on an open-access database.[3] Measures taken by China have been controversial. They were praised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for improvements over SARS-CoV-1 responses, but maligned by many in the international community for being slow to publicly disclose key facts or deceptive about the outbreak and for aggressively censoring information relating to the outbreak and public discontent from citizens online.[4][5][6][7]