Corona.19 (COVID 19) part2

 What Next C.19

-December 31, 2019: The World Health Organization announced the discovery of a number of cases of idiopathic pneumonia in the eastern city of Wuhan, similar to the SARS epidemic.

-January 7, 2020: Chinese scientists have concluded that a new coronavirus is the cause of pneumonia, after the virus had infected a large number of residents.

-January 11: The first death from the virus was recorded in Wuhan, and the victim was a 61-year-old man.

- January 20: The United States of America announces the first infection with the virus, for a man in his thirties, who was on a trip to Wuhan.

- January 29: The first cases of Coronavirus were announced in the Arab world, 4 cases were detected in the UAE.

-January 31: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency, with the number of injured increasing to 9,800, and 200 deaths recorded in China.

-February 2: The first death from the virus is recorded outside Wuhan, and the victim is a 44-year-old man in the Philippines.

-February 3: The United States declares a public health emergency.

- February 10: The number of Corona virus deaths in Wuhan exceeded the total number of SARS deaths in 17 years, with a total of 908 deaths in Corona, compared to 774 SARS deaths.

- February 11: The World Health Organization named the virus "Corona" and "Covid-19" for the disease it causes.

-February 14: The first death from the virus was recorded in the European Union for a Chinese tourist, who was 80 years old, and died in the French capital, Paris.

-February 27: Saudi Arabia suspends Umrah flights.

- March 7: The drug "hydroxychloroquine" is approved as a treatment for Corona virus, after clinical trials have proven successful in relieving symptoms of the disease.

- March 11: The United States of America bans the entry of Europeans, and allows Americans abroad to return, provided they undergo a corona examination.

- March 11: The World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus a "global epidemic" due to the high number of infections with it, and the lack of an effective treatment or vaccine.

- March 24: The International Olympic Committee and Japanese officials decide to postpone the Tokyo Olympics by a year.

-March 27: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he has tested positive for the Coronavirus. He was taken to hospital, and later recovered.

- April 2: The number of people infected with Coronavirus has reached one million in 171 countries, according to the World Health Organization.

- April 8: The restrictions imposed to contain the Corona virus are canceled in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

- April 14: Jennifer Haller (44 years), a mother of two, from Seattle, USA, undergoes the first experimental vaccine against the Corona virus in the United States.

- April 14: US President Donald Trump suspends funding to the World Health Organization, says it is subjugated to China and dealt belatedly with the crisis.

- April 24: Heads of state and global health sector leaders make a commitment to work to accelerate the development and production of new vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and to ensure equitable access around the world.

- April 30: Prime Minister of Russia, Mikhail Mishustin, was infected with the Coronavirus, and entered temporary self-isolation.

-May 4: An online conference to raise funds for vaccines and medicines raises more than € 4.7 billion.

- May 16: The German Football League is the first major sports association to resume play after the closure procedures. Without an audience and under a strict health protocol.

-May 21: The death toll from injuries worldwide reaches 5 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, and more than 328,000 deaths.

-May 29: Trump announces America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization, with the decision to take effect in July 2021.

- June 22: Saudi Arabia announces the conduct of Hajj rituals with the participation of a limited number of Muslims residing in the country due to fears of the Corona pandemic.

-June 25: The European Medicines Agency allows remdesivir to be used as a treatment for people with Covid-19 disease.

-June 28: The global total of Corona injuries reaches 10 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, and deaths exceed half a million deaths.

-July 7: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro becomes the first president in the world to be infected with the Coronavirus.

- July 21: The American companies, "AstnraZeneca" and "Sun China", announce promising results in a vaccine that the two companies are working on.

- July 24: The World Health Organization records more than 284,000 new cases of Coronavirus within one day, in a record toll.

- July 27: The American company "Moderna" announces the start of the clinical trial phase, after receiving $ 472 million from the administration of President Donald Trump.

- August 11: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that a Russian laboratory has developed an anti-Coronavirus vaccine called "Sputnik V", and personally inaugurates it.

- August 23: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces that convalescent plasma will be used as a treatment against Coronavirus.

- September 22: The award ceremony for Nobel Prize winners in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics scheduled for December 10 in Stockholm is canceled due to the Corona pandemic.

- September 28: A million deaths were recorded globally, so that Corona exceeded the deaths caused by HIV, dysentery, malaria, influenza, cholera and measles combined.

-October 2: US President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife Melania were infected with the Corona virus.

-October 19: The World Health Organization records more than 40 million cases of coronavirus, most of them in America, India and Brazil.

- October 29: The World Health Organization announced that the European Union countries have entered a dangerous phase in the spread of the epidemic, describing the Union as the epicenter of the epidemic.

- November 3: Algerian President Abdel Majid Tebboune was revealed with the Coronavirus, a week after he was transferred to a hospital in Germany.

-November 8: More than 50 million cases of Coronavirus around the world.

- November 10: The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, died of infection with the Coronavirus, at the age of 65.

- November 18: The American company "Pfizer" and "Biontech" of Germany announced that their vaccines are 95% effective.

-November 23: The American company "Moderna" publishes reports of its vaccine, which has proven to be 90% effective.

- November 23: Oxford University and AstraZeneca announce their Corona virus vaccine.

-December 8: Britain becomes the first country to start mass vaccination campaigns for the "Pfizer / Biontech" vaccine against Corona.

-December 17: French President Emmanuel Macron is infected with the Corona virus.

- December 17: Mary Kerr, in the United Kingdom, received her dose of the "Pfizer / Biontech" vaccine against the Corona virus, at the age of 108 years, and CARE had suffered from the Spanish flu pandemic, more than a hundred years ago.

-December 18: The WHO mechanism named "Kovacs" to bring the vaccine to poor countries guaranteed nearly two billion doses.

- December 19: Britain announces the discovery of a new strain of Corona virus that strikes parts of it, which is more contagious and transmissible than the original by 70%.

-December 23: Britain announces the discovery of a second new strain of the virus, "more mutated and more contagious." 

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