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May 1, 2024 · NEWS. 01 May 2024. Update 03 May 2024. Correction 03 May 2024. Chinese virologist who was first to share COVID-19 genome sleeps on street after lab shuts. Zhang Yongzhen shared the genomic...
- Smriti Mallapaty
2 days ago · COVID-19 was first detected in 2019 in Wuhan, China. A large proportion of infections in China were undocumented before travel restrictions and other control measures were implemented in late January 2020. As a result, COVID-19 very quickly spread to countries worldwide, giving rise to a multiyear pandemic that resulted in millions of deaths.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 18, 2024 · The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei in China in December 2019. The figures presented are based on reported cases and deaths. While in several high-income countries the ratio of total estimated cases and deaths to reported cases and deaths is low and close to 1, for some countries it ...
May 14, 2024 · "Journalist Zhang Zhan, who courageously risked her life by informing the public on the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan, is at risk of dying if she does not receive extensive medical...
5 days ago · The history of coronaviruses is an account of the discovery of the diseases caused by coronaviruses and the diseases they cause. It starts with the first report of a new type of upper-respiratory tract disease among chickens in North Dakota, U.S., in 1931. The causative agent was identified as a virus in 1933.
May 13, 2024 · Chinese woman jailed over Covid reporting in Wuhan is set to be freed. Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who gave an unfiltered view of life under lockdown in the central Chinese city at the...
May 1, 2024 · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019-nCoV), which was...
