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However, two common data collection problems affect the reliability of the epidemiological data in real time: missing information on the time of first symptoms, and retrospective revision of historical information, including right censoring. Here, we propose an approach to construct epidemic curves in near real time that addresses these two challenges by 1) imputation of dates of symptom onset for reported cases using a dynamically-estimated \u201cbackward\u201d reporting delay conditional distribution, and 2) adjustment for right censoring using the\n                    <jats:italic>NobBS<\/jats:italic>\n                    software package to nowcast cases by date of symptom onset. This process allows us to obtain an approximation of the time-varying reproduction number (\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    ) in real time. We apply this approach to characterize the early SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in two Spanish regions between March and April 2020. We evaluate how these real-time estimates compare with more complete epidemiological data that became available later. We explore the impact of the different assumptions on the estimates, and compare our estimates with those obtained from commonly used surveillance approaches. 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