  Since the end of 2019 an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus, called
2019--nCoV, is reported from China and later other parts of the world. Since
January 21, WHO reports daily data on confirmed cases and deaths from both
China and other countries. In this work we present some discrete and continuous
models to discribe the disease dynamics in China and estimate the needed
epidemiological parameters. Good agreement with the current dynamics has be
found for both a discrete transmission model and a slightly modified SIR-model.
