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The first known case of COVID-19
A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19 -
The first known case in France
The patient was a 43-year-old man named Amirouche Hammar. He's an Algerian-born fishmonger who lives in Bobigny, in the northeast suburbs of Paris. A French hospital that has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had Covid-19 as early as Dec. 27, nearly a month before the French government confirmed its first cases. -
China begins communicating with the WHO
China has been regularly informing the WHO, relevant countries and regions, and China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan about the pneumonia outbreak. -
China informs the U.S. of the new strain of pneumonia from an unknown origin
Head of the China CDC talked over the phone with the director of the U.S. CDC about the pneumonia outbreak. -
China first began classifying COVID-19 as a contagion and a threat to spread
China identifies new coronavirus as the cause of the outbreak. COVID-19, a large family of viruses that can cause varying levels of disease, from common colds to severe fatal diseases. Usually found in animals, some can infect humans and transmit between humans. Both SARS and MERS are caused by a coronavirus -
The first deaths in Wuhan, China
The first deaths in Wuhan, China -
The first known case outside of Wuhan, China
The first confirmed cases outside mainland China occurred in Thailand -
The first known case in Japan
Kanagawa Prefecture confirmed its first case of COVID-19 when a man in his 30s who had previously traveled to Wuhan tested positive for it, marking the first confirmed case in Japan -
The first known case in the U.S
The Washington state man in his 30s returned from Wuhan a week earlier, on Jan. 15 -
The first known case in Taiwan
The virus was confirmed to have spread to Taiwan from a 50-year-old woman who had been teaching in Wuhan, China -
The first known case in Canada
The first case of the coronavirus in Canada involved a man in his 50s who arrived in Toronto on Jan. 22, after visiting Wuhan -
The first known case in Vietnam
Vietnam confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19, a Chinese man (#1) traveling from Wuhan to Hanoi to visit his son who lived in Vietnam, and his son (#2), who was believed to have contracted the disease from his father -
The first known case in Germany
The first case was confirmed and contained near Munich, Bavaria -
The first known case in the U.K
The UK’s first two patients test positive for Coronavirus after two Chinese nationals from the same family staying at a hotel in York fall ill -
The first know case in Italy.
Italy suspends flights to China and declares a national emergency after two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus. -
The first known case in Russia
Two Chinese tourists in Tyumen, Siberia, and Chita, Russian Far East tested positive for the virus, with both cases being contained -
The first death from COVID-19 in the U.S
Autopsies on the bodies of two people who died at home on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17 showed they were positive for the virus, a California county announced April 21. -
The first death in Italy
A cluster of cases was later detected, starting with 16 confirmed cases in Lombardy on 21 February, and 60 additional cases and the first deaths on 22 February -
The first known case in Colorado.
The first two cases of coronavirus in Summit County, and Douglas County -
The first death from COVID-19 in Colorado
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed that a woman in her eighties has died from the virus in El Paso County. -
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