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The WHO China country office was informed about cases of pneumonia that was plaguing Wuhan. At this point, the cause of the cases was unknown.
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The origin of the virus was discovered by the National Health Commission China to be one seafood market in Wuhan. They also closed that seafood market down
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The Chinese authorities found out isolated the virus and found out that it was a coronavirus. They then informed the WHO and the CDC about that.
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Chinese authorities report that a 61-year-old man is the first death due to the 2019-nCoV.
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China shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus for the whole world to use. This allowed other countries and research organizations to develop methods to diagnose people.
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Thailand reported the first case of a lab-confirmed 2019-nCoV outside of China. This case was a woman traveling from Wuhan
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The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan reports the first case of 2019-nCoV within Japan. This person was a traveler from Wuhan.
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The National IHR Focal Point for the Republic of Korea reports the first case of 2019-nCoV in Korea
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WHO releases their first situation report on the 2019-nCoV
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While the person arrived in America on the 15th of January, the case was only lab-confirmed on the 21st of January
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At this point in time, 16 healthcare workers in China who were taking care of the infected were infected as well
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The Journal of Medical Virology published an article that proves that the natural reservoir of the 2019-nCoV are snakes.
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Wuhan closes all their train stations and airports, to prevent mass crowding and the ability to escape Wuhan.
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The number of deaths exceeds 2 digits, reaching a total of 17
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WHO assesses the risk of the 2019-nCoV to be very high in China, high at the regional level and at the global level
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Beijing cancels all Lunar New Year celebrations in order to prevent crowding and avoid spreading of the 2019-nCoV
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As of this date, a total of 50 million people are under lockdown in the Hubei province. This prevents more cases from spreading out of the Hubei province but leaving those under lockdown to die.
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The number of infected people reaches 1300. Surpassing 3 digits
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Many airlines and countries are canceling flights to and from China. The remaining flights require those that have been to China recently to undergo quarantine for 14 days and those that have the passport of that country to undergo a self-imposed quarantine. While they have not released a travel ban, many governments have released an advisory to not travel to China. This time span is not how long the cancellations will occur, but when the governments announced the cancellations.
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The total number of deaths reaches 106, which is over 3 digits
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The number of cases reaches 9826, which means that it has surpassed the number of cases of the SARS virus.
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This article explains how there are strands of HIV proteins in the genetic code of the CoVid-19 that China sent out. This cause a lot of people to mistakenly believe that the coronavirus was made by the Chinese government.
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The number of lab-confirmed cases reaches 12000, which is 4 digits
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A 44-year-old man from the Philippines was the first fatality of the 2019-nCoV outside of China.
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An 80-year-old man was tested positive while onboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship in Japan. The entire ship is quarantined and many more cases could be possible. This event causes Japan to technically have the second-highest number of cases, behind China.
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The number of deaths reaches 812, meaning that it has surpassed the 774 deaths of the SARS outbreak in 2003. However, the number of cases is more than 4 times more than SARS, so the fatality rate is still much less
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The number of deaths reaches 1018, meaning that it has exceeded 4 digits.
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The South China Agricultural University announced that the CoVid-19 shared a 99% similarity to a virus that was found in the Pangolin.
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Chinese authorities change the case definition of the coronavirus, letting the clinically diagnosed cases to be considered "confirmed". This was due to there being a lack of time and resources to lab-confirm all of them. This caused an increase in 15000 cases of the CoVid-19. There was also a 254 increase in deaths, doubling from the previous days. This is due to many deaths from clinically diagnosed cases not being counted in the past death records.
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WHO named the 2019-nCoV, calling it the CoVid-19.
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The second death outside of China was from Japan. This death was nearly 2 weeks after the previous death outside of China.
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Chinese authorities report that 1716 healthcare workers are infected with the CoVid-19, with 6 of them being deaths. This caused the WHO to investigate this situation
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France announces the first death due to the CoVid-19 outside of Asia. The victim was an 80-year-old man that had traveled to China.
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