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The key events during the covid-19 pandemic

Many dates stick in our minds as we reflect on five years of living with covid-19 - here are some of the most memorable ones

By Alexandra Thompson

1 January 2025

A quarantine control notice at Narita airport in Japan in January 2020

Travel restrictions were quickly put in place worldwide

JIJI PRESS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

These are the key events of the covid-19 pandemic, from first infections to the end of the emergency:

12.12.19: emerge from Wuhan, China

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31.12.19: The World Health Organization (WHO) is of this pneumonia

07.01.20: Public health officials in China identify a

11.01.20: China reports its

13.01.20: Thailand reports the first

20.01.20: The

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