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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.
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. [1] [2] The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first reports of the virus were published on December 31, 2019, though ...
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 ...
Our species lived through the Spanish flu, polio, ebola, SARS, and swine flu. How have humans gotten themselves out of pandemics in the past? And how might we get out of this one?
A PHEIC has legal and technical meaning; “pandemic” does not—it’s a descriptor, rather than a technical designation. I declared an end to COVID-19 as a PHEIC on May 5 of last year ...
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus stated on 14 September 2022, that "[The world has] never been in a better position to end the pandemic", citing the lowest number of weekly reported deaths since March 2020. He continued, "We are not there yet. But the end is in sight—we can see the finish line". [242] [243] [244] [245]
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.