Data source The reported cases of SARS-CoV-2, which have been named as COVID-19, were collected for the modelling study from a published literature [3]. As reported by Li et al. [3], the onset date of the first case was on 7 December, 2020, and the seafood market was closed on 1 January, 2020 [11]. The epidemic curve from 7 December, 2019 to 1 January, 2020 was collected for our study, and the simulation time step was 1 day.