Check out this map from my project at the Peace Research Center Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (www.prcprague.cz/, fsv.cuni.cz/). For each country of the world, it shows how often it has been referred to in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic in online media across the world. The darker the colour, the higher the number of news about the country that mention COVID-19 (or related terms, such as coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, etc.) in online media outlets worldwide.
Some observations based on the data:
1) Coverage reflects, by and large, the development of the pandemic across the world. By far the most coverage has been on China for a long time, later spreading to cover, a...