Covid-19 Timeline

By Hector.s

  • the day Covid-19 was created

    31 Dec 2019 Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.

  • Start of the Spread of Covid-19

    1 January 2020 WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak.

  • Social Media Awareness of Covid-19

    there was a person who posted on social media that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases – with no deaths – in Wuhan, Hubei province.

  • News starts talking more about corona virus

    WHO published our first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. This is a flagship technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice, and reported on what China had told the organization about the status of patients and the public health response on the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

  • Public Health Outbreak

    The WHO Director- General convened an Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations to assess whether the outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern.

  • Health Reports all over from china of Covid-19 spread

    The WHO Director-General reconvened the Emergency Committee . This was earlier than the 10-day period and only two days after the first reports of limited human-to-human transmission were reported outside China.