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Scroll left and right to see how the 2019 novel coronavirus spread.
Early December 2019:
The
first cases
of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) were reported to health authorities in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province.
December 31, 2019
Wuhan health officials issued an alert of a new virus. China also alerted the
World Health Organization
.
January 1, 2020
Officials shut down Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where they suspected the cases spread, though it
may not
have originated there.
January 7, 2020
Chinese authorities identified the virus, temporarily named
2019-nCoV
or the 2019 novel coronavirus.
January 11, 2020
The
first death
was reported from 2019-nCoV. He was a 61-year-old man who died on January 9 in Wuhan after he was hospitalized with "severe pneumonia".
January 13, 2020
A 61-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan traveled to
Thailand
as a tourist. She was detected using thermal surveillance at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
January 20, 2020
China's National Health Commission confirmed that the 2019 novel coronavirus has been passed through
human-to-human
transmission.
January 21, 2020
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first
American novel coronavirus case
in Everett, Washington, in a man who had traveled from Wuhan.
January 23, 2020
Officials put Wuhan on lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. Buses and subways stopped running.
The
World Health Organization
also concluded it was too early to label 2019-nCoV a public health emergency of international concern or PHEIC.
January 24, 2020
A second U.S. case is identified in
Chicago
in a 60-year-old woman who had traveled to Wuhan and back.
January 25, 2020
Canada
reported its first case in a 50-year old man who returned from Wuhan to Toronto.
In Wuhan, 62 year-old physician
Liang Wudong
died. He had been treating coronavirus patients
.
January 26, 2020
Three more cases are identified in the United States, two in California, and one in Arizona. All three had recently traveled to Wuhan.
Chinese researchers published data in the British medical journal, The Lancet, showing 13 of the 41 patients in the initial Wuhan cluster had no identifiable link to the seafood market suspected of being the outbreak's epicenter.
January 27, 2020
Three suspected coronavirus cases in Mexico tested
negative
.
A second coronavirus case is identified in
Canada
. She is in her 50s and is the wife of the man who was diagnosed with the first coronavirus case in Canada.
January 28, 2020
Canadian officials
reported a third person tested positive for 2019-nCoV. The man in his 40s traveled to Wuhan and returned to British Columbia.
January 29, 2020
China
now has cases in almost every province and administrative region:
• 5,997 confirmed
• 132 deaths
• 9,239 suspected cases
The 2019-nCoV has been confirmed in
15 other countries
:
•Thailand: 14
•Australia: 7
•Japan: 7
•Singapore: 7
•United States: 5
•France: 4
•Germany: 4
•Republic of Korea: 4
•Malaysia: 4
•UAE: 4
•Canada: 3
•Vietnam: 2
•Cambodia: 1
•Nepal: 1
•Sri Lanka: 1
