A Journal of the Pandemic Year

By Narek Gaboyan

  • WHO announces mysterious Coronavirus-related pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

  • Chinese authorities publicly confirm that there is human-to-human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

  • The city of Wuhan gets quarantined

  • Total number of deaths of COVID-19 surpasses 100.000

  • The WHO names the disease COVID-19

  • WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic

  • The worldwide number of COVID-19 cases reach 250.000 and the number of deaths surpasses 10.000

  • Global COVID-19 cases arrives 500.000 and nearly 23.000 confirmed deaths

  • China reports 130 asymtomatic cases of COVID-19

  • The cases of COVID-19 reach to 1 million in the world

  • The COVID-19 cases duplicates in only two weeks, 2.000.000 of cases

  • Total number of recvered COVID-19 patients reaches 1 million

  • The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 300.000

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 5 million worldwide

    With 106,000 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day figure so far.

  • China reports no new cases for the first time since the pandemic began

    According to the National Health Commission.

  • The U.S. death toll passes 100,000

    More Americans than were killed in the Vietnam War and Korean War combined, and approaching that of the First World War, where 116,000 Americans died in combat. The total number of cases continues to rise, although the rate is slowing.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 7 million worldwide.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 15 million worldwide

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 10 million worldwide

    The U.S. continues to report the highest number of any country as it reaches 2.5 million, a quarter of all cases globally and the global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 500,000.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 25 million worldwide

    India continues to record the highest daily increase of cases.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 40 million worldwide.

  • The Sputnik V vaccine is proven to be 92% effective against COVID-19 according to interim results.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 55 million worldwide

    With around a million cases recorded every two days on average.

  • Pfizer and BioNTech complete trials on their COVID-19 vaccine

    With an overall effectiveness rate of 95% without adverse events.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 65 million worldwide

    With the global death toll exceeding 1.5 million. Figures reflect that, in the last week, over 10,000 people worldwide have died on average every day, with one death every nine seconds. According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 had caused more deaths in 2020 than tuberculosis in 2019, as well as four times the number of deaths than malaria.

  • 36 cases are reported on the Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme in the Chilean Antarctic Territory

    Marking the first infections in Antarctica, the last continent to report infections.

  • The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 80 million worldwide