  The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak is drastically shaping and
reshaping many aspects of our life, with a huge impact on our social life. In
this era of lockdown policies in most of the major cities around the world, we
see a huge increase in people and professional engagement in social media.
Social media is playing an important role in news propagation as well as
keeping people in contact. At the same time, this source is both a blessing and
a curse as the coronavirus infodemic has become a major concern, and is already
a topic that needs special attention and further research. In this paper, we
provide a multilingual coronavirus (COVID-19) Instagram dataset that we have
been continuously collected since March 30, 2020. We are making our dataset
available to the research community at Github. We believe that this
contribution will help the community to better understand the dynamics behind
this phenomenon in Instagram, as one of the major social media. This dataset
could also help study the propagation of misinformation related to this
outbreak.
