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Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic

The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2,[1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Main article: COVID-19 pandemic

The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 16 November 2019.[2] The first human case in the United States was on 21 January 2020. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.[3][4] As of this edit (February 2024) it is still unknown on precisely how humans in mainland China were initially or previously infected with the virus known as SARS-CoV-2.[5] Official reports from the United States Government say the most likely source of the COVID-19 outbreak is from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

2019

January 2020

January 2021

January 2022

2023

2024

The 2019 and January 2020 timeline articles include the initial responses as subsections, and more comprehensive timelines by nation-state are listed below this section.


The following are the timelines of the COVID-19 pandemic respectively in:


The following are responses to the COVID-19 pandemic respectively in:

Egypt

Ghana (March–July 2020)

Ivory Coast

Nigeria (February–June 2020)

South Africa

Timeline of WHO's response to COVID-19