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Table 1.

Sample tweets for each type of polarity from group of 30 most retweeted tweets from @COVID_19NEWS

Type of Polarity	Sample Tweet from 30 Tweets most retweeted tweets from @COVID_19NEWS
Very positive (P+)	“Crows crowded on the Wusi Road, Chengxi District, Xining City, Qinghai Province. Crows love dead animals, like carrion. It looks like the movie Resident Evil”
Positive (P)	“Singer-actor #ZhangYixing has donated masks and other medical supplies to Wuhan hospitals to fight against the novel #coronavirus”
Neutral (NEU)	“Iran's deputy health minister tests positive for coronavirus; he had previously looked unwell during a press conference”
Negative (N)	“The Shanghai government just announced some terrible news”
Very negative (+N)	“Residents are welded inside their apartment blocks and left to die. #CoronaVirus”
Absence of polarity (NONE)	“#CORONAVIRUS OUTSIDE CHINA, DP.691, SK.602, JAPAN146, ITALY132 …”

Type of Polarity	Sample Tweet from 30 Tweets most retweeted tweets from @COVID_19NEWS
Very positive (P+)	“Crows crowded on the Wusi Road, Chengxi District, Xining City, Qinghai Province. Crows love dead animals, like carrion. It looks like the movie Resident Evil”
Positive (P)	“Singer-actor #ZhangYixing has donated masks and other medical supplies to Wuhan hospitals to fight against the novel #coronavirus”
Neutral (NEU)	“Iran's deputy health minister tests positive for coronavirus; he had previously looked unwell during a press conference”
Negative (N)	“The Shanghai government just announced some terrible news”
Very negative (+N)	“Residents are welded inside their apartment blocks and left to die. #CoronaVirus”
Absence of polarity (NONE)	“#CORONAVIRUS OUTSIDE CHINA, DP.691, SK.602, JAPAN146, ITALY132 …”

Source: Compiled by the authors