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Timeline COVID-19
- 1WHO and European Investment Bank cooperated to supply essential medical equipment worldwide.
- 2Based on the third meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on Novel Coronavirus, all committee members agreed that the COVID-19 outbreak is still a PHEIC.
- 3WHO announced the launch of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, or the ACT Accelerator.
- 4The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassed two million and deaths reached 139,378.
- 5Experts around the world are undergoing vaccine research and development coordinated by WHO.
- 6The number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide were over ten thousands, and the number of confirmed cases surpassed 1.7 million.
- 7Wuhan, China reopened at 12am.
- 8The number of confirmed cases in the US jumped to 86,012, surpassing China for the highest confirmed cases in the global community.
- 9WHO picked up a media statement on cases of 'viral pneumonia' in Wuhan from the website of Chinese authorities.
- 10China reported to WHO on a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases with no deaths.
- 11WHO published the first disease outbreak news on the new virus, which describes WHO's initial reply, advice, and risk assessment.
- 12WHO launched the WHO's health alert on WhatsApp in Arabia, Frence and Spain.
- 13The Chinese authorities claimed to identify a new type of coronavirus, which was named novel coronavirus, nCoV.
- 14Officials confirmed a case of COVID-19 in Thailand, which was imported from China and the first recorded case outside of China globally.
- 15The first known death from an illness caused by 2019-nCoV in Wuhan City.
- 16WHO recommended not to impose any form of travel restrictions.
- 17WHO issued a comprehensive package of technical guidance with advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potentail cases.
- 18China publicly shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus.
- 19WHO noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, mainly through family members.
- 20Japan reported the first imported case of laboratory-confirmed 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
