December 12, 2019
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. A cluster of patients begin to experience the symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that does not respond well to standard treatments.
January 31, 2020
The World Health Organization declared the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
February 11, 2020
The World Health Organization announces the official name for the disease that is causing the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak: “COVID-19.” The new name of this disease is an abbreviated version of “Coronavirus Disease 2019.”
March 11, 2020
After more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Recommended preventive measures included social distancing, wearing face masks in public, ventilation and air-filtering, hand washing, covering one's mouth when sneezing or coughing, disinfecting surfaces, and monitoring and self-isolation for people exposed or symptomatic.
Authorities worldwide have responded by implementing travel restrictions, lockdowns, workplace hazard controls, and facility closures. Borders - closed; international travel - halted; schools and businesses - closed; sports and churches - shut down. The home became the workplace. All entertainment and personal events including club meetings, weddings, baptisms, and even funerals were cancelled.
June 8, 2020
The World Bank states that the COVID-19 pandemic will plunge the global economy into the worst recession since World War II.
The response to the pandemic has resulted in global social and economic disruption, including the largest global recession since the Great Depression.
March, 2021
As of March 31, 2021, more than 130 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 2.8 million deaths attributed to COVID-19. And, it's far from over yet.
October 6, 2021
The World Health Organization published a clinical case definition of “post COVID-19 condition” or long COVID. The symptoms of long COVID include, but are not limited to, fatigue, shortness of breath, and/or cognitive dysfunction that persists for at least two months and impacts everyday life, three months from the onset of an initial COVID-19 infection.
December 2021
As of December 21, 2021, more than 290 million cases have been confirmed world wide with more than 5.44 million deaths.
As of December 2021, there are five dominant variants of Covid spreading among global populations: the Alpha variant, the Beta variant, the Gamma variant, the Delta variant and the Omicron variant. Each variant is getting weaker with less hospitalizations and deaths.
May 5, 2022
The World Health Organization estimated that there have been approximately 15 million direct or indirect deaths (also called “excess mortality”) globally from January 2020 – December 2021 that were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2022
Karen and I both caught Covid so we are both part of the statistics. As of June 2022 cases are no longer being reported. With rapid test available to everyone, and no requirements to report positive cases, the cases are just being estimated based on hospitalizations and deaths.
On my final posting in June 2022, there are 539 million cases worldwide and 6.32 million deaths.
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Updates:
February 2023
Worldwide tally reaches 755 million COVID-19 cases and 6.8 million deaths.
May 5, 2023
The WHO declares an end to the public health emergency of international concern.
August 17, 2025
The WHO reports 7,100,227 deaths to date from Covid-19.
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