SARS-COV-2

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  • First known case of SARS-COV-2 [Spread]

    The first known case of the SARS-COV-2 was infected. The cause of this is unknown since this case had no affiliation or connection to a wet market.
    This case was only discovered to be of the SARS-COV-2 on March 13 2020, so it was not yet known to be a new disease
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  • What used to be known as the first case [Spead]

    A clinical study on January 2nd showed that the earliest case of the SARS-COV-2 was from December 1st, and had no relation to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market of Wuhan or the other cases.
    This is relatively old, so the information may be outdated
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  • A BAL sample was taken and sent for analysis [Measures Taken]

    A Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid was taken from a patient in Wuhan Central Hospital and sent to be analysed in a private company in Guangzhou -- Vision Medicals -- that specializes in metagenomic massive parallel sequencing analysis.
    A Bronchoalveolar Lavage is method to diagnose people with infections of the lower respiratory airways by sampling the epithelial lining fluid to determine the protein composition of the pulmonary airways.

  • First known case outside of China [Spread]

    Mainstream french media revealed in May 2020 that there was a case of the SARS-CoV-2 on this day in France. This changed everyone's view on the timeline of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2, by shifting everything earlier. This also made many people and scientists think about the possible origins of the SARS-CoV-2 being outside of China.

  • Results of the BAL sample received and new BAL sample sent

    The Wuhan Central Hospital received a message from Vision Medicals in GuangZhou that the BAL sample taken on the 24th December showed evidence of a new coronavirus, so the patient was quarantined. At the same time, a new BAL sample was sent to CapitalBio Medlab in Beijing for further analysis.

  • Result of the 27th December BAL sample [Conspiracy Theories]

    The result of the BAL sample that was sent in 27th December was that the new coronavirus was the SARS virus, the virus that plagued Asia in 2002 and 2003. The Wuhan Central Hospital's doctors were informed about this and shared the test report with a lot of their friend circles. In the future, the test was shown to be faulty.
    This leads to the first "conspiracy theory" that the SARS was coming back. Even though it was just a misunderstanding, it technically was a conspiracy theory.

  • WHO and CDC were informed [Measures taken]

    The WHO China country office was informed that dozens of cases of pneumonia that were plaguing Wuhan, China. According to an MMWR on early february, they knew the cluster of cases were associated to the Hunan Seafood and Animal Market.

  • Hong Kong takes some precautions to an unknown virus [Measures taken]

    According to SCMP, an unknown hospital in Hong Kong informed some of its frontline medical staff about and unknown virus in Wuhan that could affect Hong Kong too.
    This is evidence that news about the coronavirus was released to th world at least by this day
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    Florida cases [Spread]

    Even though the first official case in Florida was in March 1, there has been 170 confirmed cases in this period of time. According to the Herald, 40% of them had no reported contact with any other known patients and most of them have not travelled in recent history too. This shows evidence that there is a possibility for the virus to not be starting in China and Florida instead.
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  • Isolated the virus [Measures Taken]

    Scientists of the National Institute of Viral Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the novel coronavirus isolated on 3 January was the pathogenic cause of the new cases of pneumonia.

  • Rumors about a potential SARS outbreak spread in China [Conspiracy Theories]

    Posts with the tag #WuhanSARS circulated around Wuhan. This is misleading and Chinese officials are investigated the 8 people that allegedly spread this misleading information.
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  • First Death [Spread]

    The first death from the virus occurred in a 61-year-old man who was a regular customer at the market. He had several significant medical conditions, including chronic liver disease, and died from heart failure and pneumonia. The incident was reported in China by the health commission via Chinese state media 2 days later.

  • Viral Genome shared to the web [Measures Taken]

    The first viral genome sequence was shared to GENBANK and Virological.org by Professor Zhang Yongzhen of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre through the auspices of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was before the government's official disclosure of the same to WHO, which occurred on the following day when the National Health Commission released several viral sequences to GISAID.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Thailand, and outside of China [Spread]

    A 61-year-old female resident of Wuhan in Bangkok was confirmed to have the virus. She arrived on Bangkok on 8 January

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Japan [Spread]

    The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan reports the first case of 2019-nCoV within Japan. This person was a 30-year-old traveller from Wuhan

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in South Korea [Spread]

    The National IHR Focal Point for the Republic of Korea reports the first case of 2019-nCoV in Korea.

  • WHO's first situation report [Measures Taken]

    WHO released their first situation report on the 2019-nCoV on this day. This becomes a relatively reliable source of information on the pandemic, which allows misinformation to lessen in general.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in America [Spread]

    While the person arrived in America on the 15th of January, the case was only lab-confirmed on the 21st of January

  • Wuhan closes all transport stations in the city [Measures taken]

    Officials announced a quarantine of greater Wuhan, China area, to commerce on this day at 10 am. No traffic would be allowed in or out of Wuhan. Unfortunately, as the mayor of Wuhan admitted, the officials did not release information in a "timely" manner. This allowed 5 million people to travel outside of Wuhan before the quarantine went under effect.
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  • Is 219-nCoV caused by snakes? [Conspiracy theory]

    The Journal of Medical Virology published an article that proves that the natural reservoir of the 2019-nCoV are snakes. (Article) This article was then proved to be false, so it was technically a conspiracy theory that stemmed from lack of information, but is no longer being spread.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Vietnam [Spread]

    Vietnam confirmed its first 2 laboratory confirmed cases, a 66-year-old and 29 year-old father and son that came from China.

  • Lunar New Year celebrations canceled [Measures Taken]

    In Beijing, the authorities have cancelled all large-scale Lunar New Year celebrations. This is very important as Lunar New Year is extremely important in Chinese culture and this shows that the authorities would go to any means to stop the virus in its tracks.

  • WHO assesses the risk of the 2019-nCoV [Measures Taken]

    The WHO accesses the risk of the 2019-nCoV to be very high within China, and high at a regional and worldwide level. This is used to criticise the WHO in the future for "not warning them enough'

  • Deaths reach 2 digits [Spread]

    The number of total deaths reach 2 digits, reaching 17.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Singapore [Spread]

    A 66-year-old man from China is the first official case of the 2019-nCoV within Singapore. He had entered Singapore on Jan 20 with 9 travelling companions. Authorities expect another case to pop up soon.

  • Hubei under lockdown [Measures taken]

    Hubei, a district in China that consists of 50 million people, is now under complete lockdown and are unable to leave Hubei legally. According to a paper by Science magazine, this only delayed the progression in mainland China by 3-5 days, but reduced the case importations world-wide by nearly 80%.
    Hubei has also gone under a city by city quarantine.

  • Was 2019-nCoV a chinese biological weapon? [Conspiracy Theory]

    On this day, Washington times posted 2 articles on how the virus was part of a Chinese biological weapons program, based at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
    The Washington Post later published an article debunking that theory by citing US experts on how the WIV was unsuitable for military use and that there was no evidence for the virus being biologically engineered.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in France [Spread]

    3 cases of chinese travellers have been tested positive for the 2019-nCoV in France. They are the first cases in the E.U.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Nepal [Spread]

    A student who was studying in Wuhan returned home to Nepal and was discovered to have caught the virus.

  • Number of deaths reaches 3 digits [Spread]

    The number of cases reach 1300, which means that it has exceed 3 digits.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Australia [Spread]

    4 men, all that have travelled to Wuhan recently, have been diagnosed with the 2019-nCoV in Australia. One was in Victoria while the other 3 were in South Wales.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Malaysia [Spread]

    Malaysia confirms 3 cases, all of which were related to the Chinese national that was Singapore's first case.
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    Flights to and from China cancelled [Measures Taken]

    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.

  • Video of woman eating Bat soup circulated around [Conspiracy theory]

    A video of a woman eating bat soup was circulating throughout the internet, with many people thinking that was the reason why 2019-nCoV started spreading, with the culture of eating bats.
    This turned out to be completely false as the woman was not only eating the bat soup 3 years before the virus started spreading, she was also eating it in Micronesia, not China. This causes the speculation that the culture of consuming at soup in China caused the pandemic

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Sri Lanka [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Cambodia [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Canada

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Germany [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in UAE [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Finland [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in the Philippines [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in India [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Italy [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Russia [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Spain [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Sweden [Spread]

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in UK [Spread]

  • HIV proteins found in the genetic code? [Conspiracy Theory]

    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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    This article, however, was disproven by many people and is now withdrawn. This shows that this article is false and misleading.

  • Number of cases exceed SARS

    The number of cases reaches 9826, which means that it has surpassed the number of cases of the SARS virus.

  • Number of deaths reaches 5 digits [Spread]

    The number of lab-confirmed cases reaches 12000, which is 5 digits

  • First death outside of China [Spread]

    A 44-year-old man from the Philippines was the first fatality of the 2019-nCoV outside of China.

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Belgium [Spread]

  • Cruise Ship in Japan infected [Spread]

    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.

  • The situation surrounding Dr Li Wenliang's death [Conspiracy Theory]

    Dr Li Wenliang was hailed as a hero for "whistle-blowing" as he supposedly tried to warn people that there was an unknown virus, causing him to be supposedly arrested. This is already false as he had warned them about SARS and was given a stern warning. When he sadly passed away due to CoVid-19, he was hailed as a martyr and people started to say that he was killed by the chinese government. This is false as he died while trying to cure as many people as possible, like any good doctor would.

  • Number of deaths exceed SARS [Spread]

    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

  • Deaths reaches 4 digits [Spread]

    The number of deaths reaches 1018, meaning that it has exceeded 4 digits.

  • Are Pangolins the intermediary? [Conspiracy theory?]

    This isn't really a conspiracy theory, but it may cause some misunderstandings if it turns out to be false. The South China Agricultural University announced that the CoVid-19 shared a 90.32% similarity to a virus that was found in the Pangolin. However, BatCoV-RaTG13 still remains the closest relative to the SARS-CoV-2, with a 96.18% match.
    In May, scientists think that the SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera of the pangolin and bat coronaviruses, which means that it is a hybrid of both.

  • China changes the case definition of CoVid-19 [Spread]

    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.

  • Many Healthcare workers are infected by the CoVid-19 [Spread]

    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

  • First case of 2019-nCoV in Egypt [Spread]

  • First death outside of Asia [Spread]

    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.

  • Cult in Korea causes the Korean cases to start to increase greatly [Spread]

    The Shincheonji Church of Jesus is a secret cult of 200,000 people that is based in Daegu. They would meet up even when the CoVid-19 was still somewhat prevalent. One member contracted the CoVid-19, thereby causing many other members to catch it as they would meet up in cramped areas.
    Roughly 60% of all Korean cases are from the church

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Lebanon [Spread]

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Israel [Spread]

  • Italy's numbers start to rise [Spread]

    On this day, Italy's numbers nearly doubled, signalling that there is a possibility for Italy's numbers to skyrocket. Unfortunately, information from May shows that they did not deal with the rising numbers properly.

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria [Spread]

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Croatia [Spread]

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Algeria [Spread]

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland [Spread]

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, and North Macedonia [Spread]

  • Korea quarantined [Measures Taken]

    Multiple countries over the world decided that Korea was a high-risk country and decided to not let South Koreans into their country. Some examples include Singapore and Hong Kong.

  • First case of SARS-CoV-2 in Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ireland, Monaco and Qatar [Spread]

  • Snorting Cocaine protects you from the coronavirus? [Conspiracy Theory]

    Some viral tweets stated that snorting cocaine would sterilise the nostrils, preventing them from being affected by the coronavirus. The French Ministry of Health released a public statement debunking this claim.

  • Italy announces quarantine [Measures taken]

    Italy imposes a country-wide quarantine, restricting travel except for necessity, work and health circumstances. Due to this, many Italians flocked to the supermarkets and rioted in Prison. Many Italians also tried to escape the quarantine by leaving to other European countries or to America, which would kickstart the outbreaks in those countries.

  • Travel from EU to USA suspended for 30 days [Measures taken/Spread]

    Trump announces that all travel from the EU to America (except UK) would be suspended for 30 days. This causes a large number of Americans living in EU to return to America at once, so many of them would cause the rise in cases in America, especially since America did not have enough test kits at that point of time.

  • Did the virus actually start in China? [Conspiracy Theory?]

    In response to Trump calling the SARS-CoV-2 the "Chinese virus", Chinese netizens and news outlets came up with a case to prove that the virus was from the US.
    They believed that when some Americans went to Wuhan for the military games, some were already sick and passed it to the Chinese.One of the athletes have revealed that he was sick while in Wuhan. Trump is also not releasing the health info of the other athletes. This claim is still a "conspiracy theory" but is improving its evidences.

  • Singapore authorities launched an app to aid in tracing the virus [Measures Taken]

    Singapore's Government Technology Agency launched a smartphone app TraceTogether to boost contact tracing efforts, the first such app in the world. The app will be able to tell when you've been close to a case of covid-19, causing you to be at risk and forcing you to test whether you have covid-19

  • Decline in cellphone subscriptions in China [Conspiracy Theory]

    There was a decrease in 21 million cellphone subscriptions in China. This caused many theories that this "proved" that China is lying about the deaths and how there supposedly was 21 million deaths. However, there is no solid evidence for this theory.
    Officially, the reason for this is that business and social activities have reduced greatly since the outbreak, and there has been no evidence to debunk this.
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  • Is the situation in America exaggerated? [Spread]

    The hashtag #FilmYourHospital is part of the Right-wing conspiracy theory that hospitals were in fact not overcrowded and that the quarantine is overreacting. They went to some hospitals close to them and saw that there was no unusual traffic in those hospitals, leading them to believe that the quarantine was not required. However, they do not believe that the numbers given by the government is enough evidence for the severity of the situation

  • Does 5G spread the 2019-nCoV? [Conspiracy Theory]

    No, it does not. This is a scientifically disproven, yet surprisingly common view on this topic and is only used by people that wanted to push an agenda to remove 5G towers.
    The date of the event isn't that important, but it is one of the earlier events of 5G towers being burned down in UK. Even after this day, up until May, many 5G towers, generally in the western world, are being burned down by those who believe this conspiracy theory.

  • Epoch Times's documentary on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 [Conspiracy Theory]

    Epoch Times is a well-known US-based anti-CCP media outlet that is an extension of the Falun Gong religious group in China. In fact, they even call the SARS-CoV-2 the "CCP virus".
    This documentary was made by the senior investigator reporter in Epoch Times and tried to prove that the "CCP virus" was made in a laboratory in Wuhan. This video has 2 million views and is one of the reason why this conspiracy theory is so wide spread.
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  • All Chinese have the virus? [Conspiracy Theory]

    This is not really a conspiracy theory, but just misinformation and xenophobia in general. In the US and the western world, Asians were all discriminated against for "having the coronavirus" even though they did not.
    Survey of CoVid-19 racism against Asian Australians records 178 incidents in 2 weeks

  • Bill Gates created CoVid-19? [Conspiracy Theory]

    A piece by Infowars, run by a very well-known Conspiracy Theorist, stated that the Gates Foundation "co-hosted a pandemic exercise in late 2019 that simulated a global coronavirus outbreak."
    A Fox News host also tweeted that Bill Gates wants to digitally track every American's every move and that this is the perfect time to do so. As Fox News is a very popular news outlet, this is one of the main reasons that this conspiracy theory is so widespread.

  • Couple ingests fish tank cleaner thinking it was hydroxychloroquine [Conspiracy Theory]

    A couple saw Trump's press conference that championed the anti-malarial drug called Hydroxychloroquine. They then mistook their fish tank cleaner that contains Chloroquine phosphate and then consumed it, hospitalising both of them.

  • Trump announces that he has seen evidence to believe that the SARS-COV-2 was bioengineered in a lab in Wuhan [Conspiracy Theory]

    Trump states that he has seen evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab in Wuhan. This was in contradiction to a public statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, who stated that "no such assessment has been made".
    As Trump is a public figure, this will cause this conspiracy to spread further than it did prior to Trump's speech

  • Is hydroxychloroquine a good treatment to CoVid-19? [Conspiracy Theory]

    During a roundtable event in the White House, Trump stated that he was consuming hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that has yet to be proven as a treatment to CoVid-19, and has a chance to kill the person consuming it.
    Trump has been an avid supporter of using hydroxychloroquine for months. However, there still has not been any evidence for this being an actual cure for the coronavirus