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The first case of COVID-19 was in Wuhan, China in December 2019 -
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Officials close Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which was linked to dozens of the earliest cases. Li is punished by the police and his superiors and told he is “spreading rumors.” -
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The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention obtains a full sequence of the virus but doesn’t release it. China reports the outbreak to the WHO, but Chinese authorities order labs and medical institutes to destroy patient samples. -
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On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. As of 3 January 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to WHO by the national authorities in China. -
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On Jan. 11, Chinese state media reported the first known death from COVID-19 -
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The first case outside China is identified in Thailand. -
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Japan has reported a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection in a traveler from Wuhan, the second country to report a case outside of China, raising more questions about how easily the virus is spreading among people. -
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A 25-year-old Vietnamese woman who had been in Wuhan for a 2-month business trip returned to Vietnam on Jan 17, 2020. -
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The virus was confirmed to have spread to Taiwan on 21 January 2020, with the first case being a 50-year-old woman who had been teaching in Wuhan, mainland China -
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On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. -
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The 118 cases were confirmed between January 27, 2020 (the first COVID-19 case returning from Wuhan, China documented in Canada) and March 11, 2020 -
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The virus reached the UK in late January 2020 -
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The virus was confirmed to have spread to Russia on 31 January 2020 -
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Officials in Santa Clara County, California, announced last night that at least two deaths in early February can now be attributed to COVID-19. The first cases in North America were reported in the United States in January 2020 -
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Italy’s first official COVID-19 case was detected on February 21st. -
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One week later an Italian man repatriated back to Italy from the city of Wuhan, China, was hospitalized and confirmed as the third case in Italy. Clusters of cases were later detected in Lombardy and Veneto on 21 February, with the first deaths on 22 February -
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The first person to receive a COVID-19 diagnosis and a positive test result was a young man in his 30s who came to Colorado on a ski trip. The man had traveled to Italy in mid-February, where COVID-19 was spreading widely, then arrived in Denver on Feb. 29. He then traveled to Summit County and skied at both Keystone and Vail before becoming sick and seeking help at a medical center in Frisco. He was tested on March 4, and as of that moment, Colorado’s COVID-19 outbreak officially had begun. -
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COVID-19 on March 7th 2020 -
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The person who died, a woman in her 80s, lived in El Paso County. The woman had underlying health conditions.March 13, 2020 at 5:58 p.m. -
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A patient treated in a hospital near Paris on 27 December for suspected pneumonia actually had the coronavirus, his doctor has said.