On the anniversary of the first death from the Corona virus.. we remember the story of the Corona epidemic in chronological order from the moment it appeared

Weather of Arabia - January 11 this year marks the second anniversary of the first known death from the Corona virus in the world, a 61-year-old man, who was a regular customer in the Chinese market for seafood and poultry in Wuhan, where the Corona virus first appeared in December 2019, and then spread To the countries of the world, which led to the reversal of life and disruption of the global economy, until the World Health Organization declared that the situation had become a global epidemic.

 

The Corona virus has so far killed more than 5.5 million and infected more than 301 million, and many world leaders have contracted the virus during the uphill battle to mitigate its spread within their countries’ borders, including US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, proving that even the most powerful can... Falls in the grip of the virus.

 

Here is the story of this epidemic and the chronology of the outbreak of the Corona virus from the moment it appeared:

 

December 31, 2019 : Dozens of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause appeared

On December 31, the government in the Chinese city of Wuhan confirmed that health authorities were treating dozens of cases. Days later, researchers in China identified a new virus that infected dozens of people. At the time, there was no evidence that the virus was easily spread by humans. Health officials in China said they are monitoring it to prevent the outbreak from developing into something more serious.

 

January 11, 2020: China reports its first death

On January 11, Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by the virus, which has infected dozens of people. The 61-year-old man who died was a regular customer at the market in Wuhan, and the report of his death came before one of China's biggest holidays, when hundreds of millions of people travel from all over the country.

 

January 20, 2020: Other countries, including the United States, confirmed cases

The first confirmed cases outside China were recorded in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, and the first confirmed case in the United States appeared the next day in Washington state, where a man in his thirties developed symptoms after returning from a trip to Wuhan.

 

January 23, 2020: The Chinese authorities isolate Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million people

The Chinese authorities sealed off the city of Wuhan by canceling planes and trains leaving the city, and suspending buses, subways and ferries inside. At that point, at least 17 people had died and more than 570 had been infected, including in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.

(Chinese authorities have stopped buses, subways and ferries within the city of Wuhan, photo since Feb. 3)

 

January 30, 2020 : WHO declares a global health emergency

Amid thousands of new cases in China, the World Health Organization has officially declared a "public health emergency of international concern".

 

February 2, 2020: The first death from the Corona virus was reported outside China

A 44-year-old man died in the Philippines after contracting the Corona virus, the first death reported outside China, and until that moment, the number of deaths from the virus was more than 360 people.

 

February 7, 2020: The Chinese doctor who tried to sound the alarm died

When Chinese doctor Li Wenliang died of the virus, many hailed him as a hero for trying to sound early warnings that the infection could get out of control.

 

In early January, reprimanded by the authorities and forced to sign a statement condemning his warning, Dr. Li's death sparked outrage and frustration at the way the Chinese government had mishandled the situation.

(The death of Dr. Li Wenliang has sparked outrage at the way the Chinese government has handled the epidemic)

 

February 11, 2020: The disease caused by the virus is named

The World Health Organization has proposed an official name for the disease caused by the virus, which is: Covid-19, and this name is an acronym that refers to the 2019 Corona virus disease, and the name should not refer to any of the people, places or animals associated with the virus, in order to avoid The stigma that may be attached to the name on it.

 

February 14, 2020: France announces the first death from the Corona virus in Europe

An 80-year-old Chinese tourist died on February 14 in a Paris hospital, the authorities said, in the first death from the coronavirus outside Asia. This is the fourth death from the virus outside mainland China, where about 1,500 people have died, most of them in Hubei Province.

 

February 23, 2020: Italy witnessed a significant increase in the number of injuries

Europe faced its first major outbreak as the number of reported cases in Italy rose from less than five to more than 150. In the Lombardy region, officials closed 10 cities after a cluster of cases suddenly appeared in Codogno, southeast of Milan, schools were closed and sporting events canceled and cultural.

 

February 27, 2020 :

Suspending entry to Saudi lands to perform Umrah, visit the Prophet’s Mosque and tourism, and on February 29, the entry of citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to Mecca and Medina was suspended.

 

February 29, 2020 : The United States reports one death

On February 29, authorities announced that a patient near Seattle had died of the Corona virus, in what was believed to be the first death from the Corona virus in the United States at the time, but in fact, two people had died earlier, and their diagnosis of Covid-19 was not discovered until after Months.

 

Then the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised no gatherings of 50 or more people in the United States for 8 weeks, and recommendations included weddings, festivals, parades, concerts, sporting events and conferences.

 

March 2, 2020: The first injury in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia recorded the first case of coronavirus infection for a citizen who visited Iran without disclosing this.

 

March 2, 2020: The first injury in Jordan

Jordan recorded the first case of the Corona virus coming from Italy, and since that date the government has taken a number of precautionary measures to confront the outbreak of this global epidemic in Jordan, and on March 20, 2020: the government decided to impose a curfew in Jordan, and activities were resumed for some sectors to activate the wheel The economy is within certain controls, and some services resumed their activities on the morning of April 29, 2020, and the first death in the Kingdom as a result of this virus was on March 27, 2020.

 

March 16, 2020: Latin America is starting to feel anxious

Several countries across Latin America have imposed restrictions on their citizens to slow the spread of the virus. Venezuela announced a nationwide quarantine that began on March 17. Ecuador and Peru have implemented nationwide lockdowns, while Colombia and Costa Rica have closed their borders.

 

March 17, 2020: The European Union bans most travelers from outside the European Union

European leaders voted to close at least 26 countries to nearly all visitors from the rest of the world for at least 30 days. The ban on non-essential travel from outside the EU was the first coordinated response to the pandemic by the European Union.

 

March 24, 2020: India announces a 21-day lockdown.

A day after the authorities suspended all domestic flights, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, announced a 21-day lockdown. While the number of reported cases in India has reached around 500, the prime minister has pledged to spend about $2 billion on medical supplies, isolation rooms, ventilators and training for medical professionals.

 

March 26, 2020: The United States leads the world in confirmed cases

The United States has officially become the country hardest hit by the pandemic, with at least 81,321 confirmed infections and more than 1,000 deaths. This was more cases than reported in China, Italy, or any other country at the time.

 

April 2, 2020: The number of cases exceeded one million and millions lost their jobs

By April 2, the pandemic had infected more than 1 million people in 171 countries across six continents, killing at least 51,000 people, and in just a few weeks, the pandemic had put nearly 10 million Americans out of work, including That's 6.6 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the last week of March. The speed and scale of job losses were unprecedented.

 

April 6, 2020 : Prime Minister Boris Johnson is admitted to intensive care

Ten days after he was diagnosed with the virus, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care. The British government said the decision was a precautionary measure, and also said he was in good spirits. Johnson also asked the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to deputize for him "when necessary" and was taken out of intensive care on April 12.

 

April 24, 2020: The European Union, under pressure from China, watered down a report on disinformation

The European Union appears to have come under pressure and toned down criticism of China in a report on misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. While the initial report was not particularly harsh, European officials delayed the document and then rewrote it to ease focus on China, which is a vital trading partner. .

 

April 30, 2020: Airlines announced rules requiring the wearing of face masks

After the Corona virus killed more than 200,000 people and infected more than 2.8 million people worldwide, airlines such as American Airlines and Delta Airlines required all passengers and flight attendants to wear a face mask. Austrian Airlines - in addition to JetBlue and Frontier Airlines, similar decisions.

 

May 1, 2020: Authorization to use remdesivir, the first approved therapeutic drug for COVID-19

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for remdesivir in hospitalized patients with severe coronavirus.

 

May 17, 2020: Japan and Germany, two of the world's largest economies, enter recession

 

Japan, the world's third largest economy after the United States and China, entered recession for the first time since 2015. Its economy contracted at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the first three months of the year.

 

Germany, Europe's largest economy, also fell into recession, and its economy suffered its worst contraction since the 2008 global financial crisis, shrinking by 2.2 percent in the January-March period compared to the previous quarter.

 

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(Since the pandemic began, countries around the world have fallen into recession, including Japan and Germany)

 

May 23, 2020: China has not reported any new cases of coronavirus, the first time since the outbreak began in December.

 

June 20, 2020: The National Institutes of Health announces that it has halted a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus, as the drug is unlikely to be beneficial for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

 

June 30, 2020: The European Union is preparing to reopen the borders.

The European Union is preparing to open to visitors from 15 countries on July 1, but not to travelers from the United States, Brazil or Russia. The move puts into practice a complex policy that seeks to balance health concerns, politics, diplomacy and the critical need for tourism revenue. Australia, Canada and New Zealand were among the approved list of countries.

 

July 7, 2020: Announcing the injury of the President of Brazil

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro revealed on July 7 that he had tested positive for the virus, saying he had been tested after experiencing fatigue, muscle pain and fever. This news came after months of denying the seriousness of the epidemic and ignoring preventive measures, and after the death of more than 65,000 Brazilians.

 

July 10, 2020: Hong Kong closes schools amid a third wave

Hong Kong, a city of seven million people, has recorded more than 1,400 cases and seven deaths. But on July 10, it shut down its school system as it worked to contain a third wave of infections. The third wave came after the surge in infections was contained by May, and it was a setback for a city that had largely returned to normal, as restaurants enjoyed packed crowds and employees returned to their offices.

 

August 11, 2020: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia has approved a coronavirus vaccine for general use before the completion of Phase 3 trials, which usually precede approval. The vaccine, called Sputnik-V, was developed by the Moscow-based Aesthetic Institute with funding from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

 

September 28, 2020: The global death toll has reached one million

In the 10 months since mysterious pneumonia began pummeling the population of Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has killed more than a million people worldwide — a agonizing toll compiled from official records, and believed to be an underestimation of the actual death toll.

 

October 2, 2020: US President Trump tested positive for the virus

President Trump said early October 2 that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation's leadership into uncertainty and adding to the crisis shaped by the pandemic that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and devastated the economy.

 

Mr. Trump had a fever, congestion and cough and was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, returning to the White House on October 5.

 

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(President Trump returns to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington on Oct. 5)

 

October 19, 2020: Belgium closed restaurants and imposed a curfew to stem the rise in cases

Belgium imposed a nationwide curfew and closed all cafes, bars and restaurants for a month. The restrictions came as Europe faced a resurgence in cases, with Belgium recording more than 48,000 cases over the past seven days.

 

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(A man sits on a closed balcony in Brussels, before the expected closing)

 

October 24, 2020: Polish President infected with the virus

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in isolation, officials said on October 24. The announcement came amid a crisis in Poland, which has been grappling with one of Europe's most serious outbreaks, with hospital beds filling at an alarming rate.

 

November 5, 2020: England is in a state of national lockdown

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced new restrictions that came into effect on November 5 and ended on December 2, including the closure of pubs, restaurants and most retail stores in England. The Government's Scientific Advisory Committee, in a report dated 14 October, estimated that there were between 43,000 and 75,000 new infections per day in England, a rate higher than the worst-case scenario calculated just weeks earlier.

 

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(London during second closing on 5 November)

 

November 13, 2020: An increase in children's visits to mental health emergency rooms

With closures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus and the shift of schools to distance learning, in the United States the number of emergency room visits for mental health reasons rose by 31% among 12-17-year-olds, from March to October, compared to the same period in last year, according to the CDC.

 

November 17, 2020: The Food and Drug Administration grants permission to conduct the first home test for the Corona virus

The Food and Drug Administration lit the green for the first rapid, at-home, no-laboratory test for coronavirus. The test, developed by Lucira Health, requires a prescription from a health care provider and can show results in about 30 minutes.

 

December 2, 2020: UK approves Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

Britain gave emergency authorization on December 2 for a coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer, ahead of the United States to become the first Western country to allow the vaccine to be given.

 

The first person to get a coronavirus vaccination in the UK on December 8 was Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old former jewelry store assistant, followed by an 81-year-old man.

 

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December 11, 2020: The Food and Drug Administration grants approval for a vaccine from Pfizer

This paved the way for millions of highly susceptible people to start receiving the vaccine within days. The mandate was a historic turning point in a pandemic that has killed more than 290,000 people in the United States. The vaccine itself has also been approved by Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and other countries.

 

December 18, 2020: The Food and Drug Administration authorizes the use of Moderna vaccine

 

February 27, 2021: The US Food and Drug Administration grants authorization for the use of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, the first single-dose coronavirus vaccine.

 

May 31, 2021: Nomenclature of the delta mutant of the coronavirus that was first discovered in India in late 2020.

 

August 3, 2021: The delta mutant becomes the largest number of coronavirus infections.

August 12, 2021: The US Food and Drug Administration authorizes an additional dose of the corona vaccine for some immunocompromised people.

November 2, 2021 - Walinsky said she supports a recommendation to vaccinate children 5-11 years old against Covid-19, paving the way for immediate vaccination of the youngest age group in the United States.

November 19, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine boosters for all adults. On the same day, the CDC also endorses reinforcers for all adults.

 

November 24, 2021: A new mutant of the Corona virus was reported, which the World Health Organization named the mutant “Omicron:

 

December 22, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed Pfizer's anti-coronavirus Paxlovid, the first licensed anti-coronavirus drug loan in the US to be taken at home, and the next day, the US Food and Drug Administration allowed Merck with the antiviral drug molnupiravi.

 

December 27, 2021: Shortening the period of quarantine for the infected

The CDC has shortened the recommended times for quarantine when a test result is positive from 10 days to 5 days if they have no symptoms, and also shortened the recommended time for people to quarantine if they have been exposed to the virus to five days if they have been vaccinated.