7: Li Wenliang, a Chinese ophthalmologist who had been reprimanded for issuing an early warning about the Wuhan outbreak, dies, triggering wide public mourning and rare expressions of anger against the government.įeb. The ship is quarantined for nearly a month.įeb. More than 700 passengers eventually test positive and 14 die. 5: About 3,700 passengers are quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess, a Carnival Corp cruise liner, off the coast of Japan after 10 people test positive. American Airlines Group and United Airlines Holdings Inc suspend flights to Hong Kong.įeb.
3: Investors erase $393 billion from China’s benchmark stock index, selling the yuan and dumping commodities on the first day of trade after the Lunar New Year break.įeb. 2: A 44-year-old man dies in the Philippines, the first death outside China.įeb. 1: The United States, Singapore, Russia and Australia ban foreign travelers who were recently in China.įeb. 30: The WHO declares the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.įeb.
27: The United States warns against travel to China, a day after five people who had been in Wuhan become the first confirmed cases in America. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces measures to limit links with China. The Lunar New Year holiday is extended for workers and schools. 25: China bans wildlife trade after the virus was traced to a Wuhan animal market. 24: The first cases in Europe are reported in France. 23: China issues a lockdown for millions of people in Wuhan and Hubei as the death toll rises to 18. Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the new coronavirus does not yet constitute an international emergency.
22: The WHO convenes an emergency meeting with health authorities around the world. 13: A Chinese woman is quarantined in Thailand, the first detection of the virus outside China. Preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media point to a new type of coronavirus. 11, 2020: A 61-year-old man is reported as the first death. Authorities shut down a wet market in Wuhan the next day, after discovering some patients were vendors or dealers. 31, 2019: China alerts the World Health Organization of 27 cases of “viral pneumonia” in the central city of Wuhan. A nurse wheels away a man as the people who brought him to Houston Methodist Hospital watch amid a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Houston, Texas, U.S., June 28, 2020.
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