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The outbreak of the virus, which began in Wuhan, China, has made more than 14.7 million people sick. At least another 610,200 people died.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
Coronavirus, which appeared in a Chinese seafood and poultry market overdue last year, has spread to at least 177 countries, killing more than 610,200 and making more than 14.7 million sicker in a few months. The World Health Organization has declared the scenario of a pandemic.
Here’s a timeline of the epidemic so far.
December 31
On December 31, The Wuhan government in China showed that the fitness government was dealing with dozens of cases. A few days later, Chinese researchers learned of a new virus that had inflamed dozens of people in Asia. At that time, there is no indication that the virus has spread smoothly through humans. Health officials in China said they were tracking it to prevent the epidemic from becoming more serious.
January 11
On January 11, Chinese state media reported the first known death from a disease caused by the virus, which had inflamed dozens more people. The 61-year-old man who died was a normal visitor to Wuhan Market. The announcement of his death came just before one of China’s most important festivities, when millions of people across the country.
January 20
The first showed outdoor cases from mainland China in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, according to the W.H.O.’s first prestige report. The first case shown in the United States occurred the next day in Washington state, where a man in his 30s developed symptoms after returning from Wuhan.
January 23
The Chinese government has shut down Wuhan by cancelling planes and trains departing from the city and postponing buses, subways and ferries inside. At this stage, at least 17 other people have died and more than 570 people have been infected, in addition to Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.
January 30
Amid thousands of new cases in China, a “foreign public fitness emergency” has been officially declared through the W.H.O. The spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry said she would continue to paint with the W.H.O. and other countries to protect public fitness, and the U.S. State Department warned travelers to China.
January 31
The Trump administration has suspended access to the United States of any foreign national who has visited China in the past 14 days, an immediate circle of family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents. By that time, another 213 people had died and nearly 9,800 had swelled up worldwide.
February 2
A 44-year-old man in the Philippines died after being infected, authorities said, the first death reported outdoors in China. By that time, more than 360 other people had died.
February 5
After two weeks to Southeast Asia, more than three,600 passengers departed about 40 aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship sent to Yokohama, Japan. Officials began monitoring passengers and the number of other people who tested positive has become the largest number of coronavirus cases outside China. On February 13, the number was 218. By the time they left the shipment on February 19, more than six hundred more people had been infected.
February 7
When Dr. Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor, died after contracting the coronavirus, he was hailed as a hero among many for seeking to sound alarm bells early that infections can get out of control.
In early January, the government rebuked him and was forced to report his warning. Dr. Li’s death has been infuriated and frustrated by the Chinese government’s mishandling of the situation.
February 11
Who. has proposed an official call for coronavirus disease: Covid-19, an acronym meaning coronavirus disease 2019. The call does not refer to any of the people, put or animals related to the coronavirus, given the purpose of the stigma.
February 14
An 80-year-old Chinese tourist died on February 14 at a paris hospital, in what was the first outdoor coronavirus death in Asia, the government said. This is the fourth death from the virus on the outskirts of mainland China, where about 1,500 people died, most of them in Hubei province.
February 23
Europe faced its first primary epidemic when the number of cases reported in Italy increased from less than five to more than 150. In the Lombardy region, the government blocked 10 cities after a case organization gave the impression that in Codogno, southeast of Milan. Schools have closed and sporting and cultural events have been cancelled.
February 24
Iran announced its first two cases of coronavirus on February 19. Less than a week later, the country said it had 61 cases of coronavirus and 12 deaths, more than any other country at the time, but China and public fitness experts warned that Iran was a source of fear: its borders cross annually through millions of devoted pilgrims, migrant staff and others. Cases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and one in Canada date back to Iran.
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