With almost a million positive cases of the deadly pandemic COVID-19, the world is at the chaos. Entire world is lockdown, people are quarantined, no human walking on the street is the world has come to a still. While some humorously say Earth is in recycling mode to the chaos created by humans, people's lives are at stake.
But how and when this deadly virus became pandemic.
Timeline of Coronavirus How It Spread Around The World:
December 31: China alerts WHO to several unusual cases of pneumonia caused by an unknown virus in Wuhan, a city of more than 1 crore people in the central Hubei province.
January 7: The new (novel) virus is given a name -- 2019-nCoV. It is identified as being part of the family of viruses known as coronaviruses. SARS, which had killed an estimated 770 people in 2002-03, was also a coronavirus.
January 11: China announces the first death from the novel coronavirus. The victim is identified as a 61-year-old man who had reportedly made some purchases from the seafood market in Wuhan.
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January 13: The first case is reported outside of China, in Thailand.
January 17: Second death is reported from Wuhan. In the next few days, cases are reported from several countries, including South Korea, France, the US, and Singapore. The US announces the screening of passengers to start at some of its airports.
January 22: Death toll in China rises to 17; more than 550 are infected. Airports in EU start checking flights from Wuhan more carefully. The following day, rail and air departures from Wuhan are suspended.
January 30: WHO declares a global health emergency, calling the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern”. US State Department warns travellers to avoid China, where cases have risen to the thousands. The first positive case is reported from India in the southern state of Kerala.
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February 2: The first coronavirus death is reported outside China. The victim is a 44-year-old man in the Philippines. The death toll has crossed 360.
February 5: More than 3,600 passengers are quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. Within a week, more than 200 people on the ship have tested positive.
February 7: Li Wenliang, a doctor from Wuhan who had blown the whistle on the new virus and was harassed by the police, dies of the coronavirus.
February 11: The WHO gives the coronavirus a name -- COVID-19.
February 14: A Chinese tourist becomes the first person to die of COVID-19 in Europe. Egypt becomes the first country in Africa to report a case. The death toll in mainland China has risen to 1,400, with 121 people dying in a 24-hour period.
February 18: China's daily infection numbers drop under 2,000 for the first time since the previous month.
February 19: Iran reports its first two deaths from COVID-19.
February 22: South Korea sees a spike of 229 new cases in a single day. Italy reports its first two deaths. New infections keep falling in mainland China.
February 26: Worldwide death toll is nearly 2,800, with about 80,000 confirmed cases. First cases reported in Norway, Greece, Romania, Pakistan, Georgia, North Macedonia, and Brazil.
February 29: South Korea reports its highest spike so far, with 813 new cases. Iran death toll crosses 40.
March 3: Italy and Iran are now the worst affected countries outside of China. In both, the death toll stands at 77.
March 8: Saudi authorities announced the suspension of all schools and universities. In Italy, 16 million people are put under quarantine in the north.
March 11: WHO declares the outbreak a pandemic. In Qatar, infections jump from 24 to 262 in 24 hours.
March 12: India records its first coronavirus death in the state of Karnataka.
March 13: President Trump declares a national emergency, and says $50 billion in federal funds would be made available to states and territories to tackle the coronavirus.
March 15: Spain records 2,000 new cases and over 100 deaths in a single day.
March 16: Several countries in Latin America impose restrictions on their citizens to halt the spread of the virus. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio orders the city's bars, theatres and cinemas to close down.
March 18: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declares a "human biosecurity emergency" in the country. Italy death toll nearly touches 3000. No new domestic cases are reported in China.
March 20: Global death toll crosses 10,000. Germany total cases rise to nearly 14,000. Spain death toll crosses 1000.
March 23: Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a lockdown in the UK, closing all nonessential shops.
March 24: Tokyo Olympics are postponed for one year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a 21-day lockdown. The number of reported cases in India has risen to about 500.
March 26: US becomes the country with most cases in the world. The number of infected people in the US is 81,321 and more than 1,000 have died.
March 27: Trump signs a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill into law. Boris Johnson says he has tested positive for the coronavirus. South Africa records its first two deaths
March 29: Death toll in the US surges past 2,000, more than doubling in 48 hours.
March 31: Number of deaths in the US surpasses those reported by China. Italy reports slowest daily rise in infections in two weeks, but the number of dead still rises by 812. More than 40 people have died in India. Around the world, more than 820,000 people have tested positive, 174,000 have recovered, and more than 40,000 people have died. More than 3 billion people across the world are now living under a lockdown.