FEBRUARY 2020 - COVID 19 TIMELINE
February 2 — Global Air Travel Is Restricted
By 5 pm on Sunday, those en route to the United States had to have left China or they faced a 2-week home-based quarantine if they had been in Hubei province. Mainland visitors, however, will need to undergo health screenings upon their return, and foreign nationals can even be denied admittance.
Other countries started to impose similar air-travel restrictions at this point include Australia,
Germany, Italy, and New Zealand.
February 3 — US Declares Public Health Emergency
WHO declared a Global
Health Emergency as more than 9800 cases of the virus and more than 200 deaths
had been confirmed worldwide.
February 10 — China’s
COVID-19 Deaths Exceed Those of SARS Crisis
The COVID-19 death toll surpasses that of the
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak from 17 years ago, totalling
908 reported deaths in China in the last month compared with 774 deaths in the
SARS crisis.
February 25 — CDC Says COVID-19 Is Heading
Toward Pandemic Status
Explaining what would signify a pandemic,
Nancy Messonnier, MD, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases, says that thus far
COVID-19 meets 2 of the 3 required factors: illness resulting in death and
sustained person-to-person spread. Worldwide spread is the third criteria not
yet met at the time.
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