This page is upgraded regularly. Because the brand-new coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December, the transmittable breathing illness COVID-19 has actually spread quickly within China and to neighboring countries and beyond. The first verified coronavirus cases outside China happened on Jan. 20, in Japan, Thailand and South Korea. On Jan. 21, the first case in the U.S. was identified in Washington state.
On Jan. 24, the first 2 European cases were confirmed in France. By Feb. 1, eight European nations had verified cases of COVID-19, and a month later that count had actually risen to 24 countries with a minimum of 2,200 cases, many of them in Italy. On March 11, Italy eclipsed 10,000 cases and the World Health Organization declared the break out a pandemic– the first given that H1N1 in 2009. Thats likewise when China, the initial center, began seeing drops in everyday counts of brand-new cases. March likewise saw rapid spread of the infection throughout the U.S., with all 50 states reporting cases by March 17. This particular virus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, is only the 3rd stress of coronavirus understood to regularly trigger serious symptoms in human beings. The other 2 strains trigger Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute breathing syndrome. Click here to see the state-by-state breakdown of cases in the United States. This story was originally published on March 30, 2020.
