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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in Wuhan , the capital of Hubei , China, in December 2019, before it spread to other areas of Asia ...
- 6,956,160 (reported), 17.5–31.4 million (estimated)
- Worldwide
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2)
Covid-19: Five days that shaped the outbreak. A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control ...
May 3, 2024 · The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses names the novel coronavirus SARSCoV-2 and WHO names the disease COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). As of today, Wuhan has 1,103 infected healthcare workers confirmed, while the rest of Hubei has another 400. 11 March 2020. WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic. Featured image by Amir Arabshahi via ...
China has had just under 100,000 recorded infections, with only around 4,800 deaths linked to Covid-19. In April 2020, Wuhan changed the way it reported Covid deaths, resulting in a spike
Nov 18, 2021 · Sometime in the waning days of 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It would take several weeks for local doctors and health officials to realize the new virus ...
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Feb 26, 2022 · The W.H.O. experts had identified 164 cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan over the course of December 2019. Unfortunately, the cases were marked by fuzzy dots scattered across a nearly featureless map of ...
Jan 22, 2021 · FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2020, file photo, a worker wearing a protective suit transfers patients in the back of a van at a tumor hospital newly designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province. The Chinese city of Wuhan is looking back on a year since it was placed under a 76-day lockdown beginning Jan. 23, 2020.
