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[17] [18] In January 2020, the WHO recommended 2019-nCoV [19] and 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease [20] as interim names for the virus and disease per 2015 international guidelines against using geographical locations (e.g. Wuhan, China), animal species, or groups of people in disease and virus names in part to prevent social stigma. [21]
This article contains the number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 reported by each country and territory to the World Health Organization in April 2020 and published in the latter's daily 'situation reports'. [1] For other months see COVID-19 pandemic cases. There is also a column there listing the date of the first case for each country.
Californian health authorities have also confirmed that two people in the state died from the coronavirus before the United States reported its first death in late February 2020. [ 242 ] According to Johns Hopkins University , more than 2.5 million people globally have contracted the coronavirus and at least 178,000 have died.
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]
The Jordanian Government extends a month-long lockdown until the end of April. [146] Saudi Arabia orders an extension of the country's curfew until further notice. [146] United Arab Emirates airliner Etihad Airways announces that it will operate special flights to Brussels, Dublin, London, Tokyo and Zurich between 14 and 22 April. This was in ...
The COVID-19 outbreak has been a pandemic since 11 March 2020. A total of about 6.6 million deaths worldwide pertaining to COVID-19 was reported as of January 2023. At the beginning of December 2022, the third anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak was commemorated.
On 30 April 2021, it became the first country to report over 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. [139] [130] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [140] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some stage of endemicity where the country learns to live with the ...
According to news reports in February 2020—Workers Daily, Global Times—at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and following the report from Doctor Zhang Jixian, the hospital immediately alerted the local CDC, Wuhan Jianghan Disease Prevention and Control Center, [14] however, the report of 22 January ...