Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21710-6, published online 9 March 2021.

The original version of this Article contained an error in the first sentence of the introduction, which incorrectly read ‘The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in December 2009 in Wuhan, China’. The first sentence of the introduction has been corrected to ‘The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China’ in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.