Large Arabic Twitter Dataset on COVID-19

Understand

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), emerged late December 2019 in China, is now rapidly spreading across the globe.

• At the time of writing this paper, the number of global confirmed cases has passed two millions and half with over 180,000 fatalities.
• Many countries have enforced strict social distancing policies to contain the spread of the virus.
• This have changed the daily life of tens of millions of people, and urged people to turn their discussions online, e.g., via online social media sites like Twitter.