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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
By mid April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90% of the population, were under some form of lockdown in the United States, [518] with around 100 million in the Philippines [519] and about 59 million in South Africa, [520] while around 1.3 billion were under lockdown in India, which was the largest of all lockdowns.
Observers stated that the lockdown had slowed the growth rate of the pandemic by 6 April to a rate of doubling every six days, [177] and by 18 April, to a rate of doubling every eight days. [178] As the end of the first lockdown period approached, state governments and other advisory committees recommended extending the lockdown. [179]
On January 23, Chinese authorities lockdown Wuhan, a city of 11 million, which heightened the urgency for the U.S. response team. The Washington Post reported that Secretary Azar (HHS) instructed his team to establish a surveillance mechanism shortly thereafter, but the money and diagnostic tests "would elude U.S. officials for months". The ...
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By the end of 2022, an estimated 77.5% of Americans had had COVID-19 at least once, according to the CDC. [ 28 ] State and local responses to the pandemic during the public health emergency included the requirement to wear a face mask in specified situations (mask mandates), prohibition and cancellation of large-scale gatherings (including ...
On 19 October, the Welsh Government announced that a second national lockdown, described as a "fire-break", would be imposed from 23 October until 9 November, coinciding with school half-term holidays which would be extended by a week in colleges and for school students in year 9 (13 to 14 years old) and above, in the hope of bringing down the ...
The first, confirmed, case of COVID-19 was in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.