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The first confirmed human case in the United States was on 19 January 2020. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and first referred to it as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. [3] [4] The WHO ended the PHEIC on 5 May 2023. [5]
By late November 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 had broken out in Wuhan, China. [2]As reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases on November 30, 2020, 7,389 blood samples collected between December 13, 2019, and January 17, 2020, by the American Red Cross from normal donors in nine states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ...
The WHO ended the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 5 May 2023. [1] COVID-19 is expected to circulate indefinitely, but as of 2024, experts were uncertain as to whether it was still a pandemic or had become endemic.
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in March 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019.
Using such data, estimates of the true number of deaths from COVID-19 worldwide have included a range from 18.2 to 33.5 million (≈27.4 million) by 18 November 2023 by The Economist, [7] [73] as well as over 18.5 million by 1 April 2023 by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [74] and ≈18.2 million (earlier) deaths between 1 ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a leading organisation involved in the global coordination for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic within the broader United Nations response to the pandemic. On 5 January 2020, the WHO notified the world about a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in China and subsequently began investigating the disease. On 20 ...
The fund has already raised $2 billion in seed capital from 27 contributors in 2023. It was used for projects to enhance pandemic response in 37 countries across six regions.
2019–2020 Asia-Pacific, Latin America: Dengue fever: 3,931 [304] COVID-19 pandemic: 2019 [b] –present Worldwide COVID-19: 7.1–36.5 million [306] 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak: 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola: 55 [307] 2020 dengue outbreak in Singapore: 2020 Singapore: Dengue fever: 32 [308] 2020 Nigeria ...