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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]
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 January 20, Chinese authorities announced the confirmation that human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus had already occurred. [19] [20]The first recorded U.S. case of the new virus was also reported on January 20, in a 35-year-old American citizen traveling from Wuhan, China, to his home in Washington state.
Since 2020, over 7 million lives have been lost to the virus, according to the World Health Organization. Social distancing, wearing masks and introducing COVID-19 vaccines led the WHO to declare ...
The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organisation has said. The WHO said weekly deaths from the virus around the world are at the lowest level since March 2020 ...
Per Our World in Data, 103,436,829 [5] confirmed cases have been reported in the United States with 1,212,505 [5] deaths, the most of any country, and the nineteenth-highest per capita worldwide. [358] COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [359] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and ...
[4] [1] [2] [5] [6] While later research determined that a first patient began to show symptoms as early as 1 December 2019, a cluster of cases was not discovered until the end of December. [7] Retrospective study would later indicate that 266 people had been infected before the beginning of 2020.
The spread of the JN.1 Omicron variant has led to a surge of COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, resulting in 400 hospitalisations per week and 25 deaths. [340] The JN.1 variant accounted for 14% of sequenced cases reported in New Zealand during the week leading up to 15 December. [341]