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The COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium has resulted in 4,893,861 [2] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 34,339 [2] deaths.. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Belgium on 4 February 2020, when one of a group of nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan to Brussels was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus.
[2] In 2017, Kahoot! had raised $26.5 million in funding from Northzone, Creandum and Microsoft Ventures. [7] On October 11, 2018, Kahoot! was valued at $300 million. [8] As of 11 June 2020, Kahoot! was valued at $1.5 billion and raised further capital from Northzone. [9] In 2019, Kahoot! acquired the Scandinavian education company Poio. [10]
In April 2021, Kahoot! acquired Motimate, a corporate learning company based in Norway, for about $25 million. [12] In 2021, Kahoot! announced that it would acquire SSO digital learning platform Clever, Inc. for $500 million to expand Clever Inc.'s reach globally. [13] Kahoot's user base grew more than 40 percent from 2020 to 2021. [14]
Early April 2021, Bangkok's entertainment venues were ordered to be closed for 2 weeks. [319] Mid-April 2021, schools were ordered to be closed for 2 weeks, [320] taking the 2000+ daily cases into consideration. [321] Since 26 April, more businesses including gyms closed for 2 weeks. [322]
Evidence against this hypothesis includes the fact that pangolin virus samples are too distant to SARS-CoV-2: isolates obtained from pangolins seized in Guangdong were only 92% identical in sequence to the SARS‑CoV‑2 genome (matches above 90 percent may sound high, but in genomic terms it is a wide evolutionary gap [101]).
Despite deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, Europe became the pandemic's epicentre once again in late 2021. [9] On 11 January 2022, Dr. Hans Kluge , the WHO Regional Director for Europe said, "more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks".
Parts of this article (those related to All) need to be updated.The reason given is: charts out of date, numbers only go to January 2022, irrelevant info in lead.
Scanning electron micrograph of SARS virions. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-1. It causes an often severe illness and is marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, and fever, followed in 2–14 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, [13] mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia.