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More than 4 million people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus, while more than 2.5 lakh people have lost their lives. The virus, which originated in China’s Hubei province last year, quickly spread to the rest of the world to infect people in more than 200 nations.
Experts from Johns Hopkins University have published a timeline of how events unfolded in Hubei, leading to the spread of the coronavirus in the form of a pandemic.
The timeline points to major Covid-19 events from the time the Wuhan City government began tracking Covid-19 cases in late December 2019, until China released a revised count of deaths and cases in April.
Here’s a look at the timeline:
Dec 29: Wuhan City Government Begins Tracking Cases.
January 4: The Shanghai laboratory detects SARS-like coronavirus.
January 7th: Pathogen identified as a new coronavirus.
January 23: Wuhan quarantined the announcement about the construction of a new hospital within 10 days. At this time, the country had seen more than 500 Covid-19 cases and more than 20 deaths.
February 1st: Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences leads the team to support Wuhan.
February 3rd: Wuhan’s first field hospital opens; More hospitals built overnight. At this point, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country has crossed over 13,000 with nearly 500 deaths.
February 14th: Wuhan asks recovered patients to donate plasma.
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February 19th: Another team of 1,299 medical workers sent to Wuhan as the city disinfects the wastewater. The national count passed the 60,000 mark with more than 2,000 deaths.
February 24th: China bans trade, consumption of wild animals and postpones annual parliamentary meeting.
26 of February: New daily cases outside China exceed those in the interior of the country.
March 12: China said its Covid-19 peak has ended as new cases continued to decline and the overall epidemic situation remained at a low level. My Feng, spokesperson for the National Health Commission, at a press conference in Beijing, said the number of new Covid-19 cases in Wuhan had been reduced to single digits.
April 8: Wuhan lifted restrictions on outbound travel on April 8 after a nearly 11-week shutdown and reported a dramatic decrease in cases.
Apr 15: China released a revised count of deaths and cases. Nearly 1,300 people who died from the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half of the total, were not counted in the death toll from failures, state media said.
May 10: China reported 14 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday. This included a new case from Wuhan where no new case of Covid-19 was reported in more than a month, the Reuters news agency reported. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country is 82,901, with more than 4,600 deaths.
The United States is the most affected nation in the world where Covid-19 cases have crossed the million mark. Almost 80,000 people have died in the United States. In Europe, the coronavirus has infected more than 1.5 million people.
(With contributions from Johns Hopkins University, agencies)
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