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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.
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic & COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 , began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.
17 mar 2021 · Jan. 11. China reported its first death. On Jan. 11, Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by the virus, which had infected dozens of people. The 61-year-old...
9 mar 2021 · On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic. Yale Medicine looks back on one of the most challenging periods in recent memory with a month-by-month timeline.
9 sie 2021 · Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the coronavirus outbreak, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
11 mar 2024 · Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since the first cases in Wuhan, China, in 2019, there have been millions of infections ...
Summary. Understanding the spread of SARS-CoV-2, how and when evidence emerged, and the timing of local, national, regional, and global responses is essential to establish how an outbreak became a pandemic and to prepare for future health threats.
