COVID-19 – the virus-infected virus – has killed more than 2.6 million people worldwide since the first case of coronavirus was detected in China in December 2019.
Countries around the world have announced locks and other restrictions to monitor the spread of COVID, which was declared a pandemic on March 11 last year.
In the last few months, vaccination campaigns have been launched in countries around the world in hopes of controlling the pandemic, which has infected more than 118 million people and spending the global economy.
Here are the top 10 times since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic a year ago by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The first deaths
On 31 December 2019, the WHO will be warned of a collection of “unknown cause” pneumonia cases in downtown Wuhan China.
One week later, a new coronavirus is identified. China confirms on January 11 the first death in Wuhan from an illness known as COVID-19.
On January 23, Wuhan is quarantined and cut off from the world. Countries are beginning to withdraw their citizens from China.
France is reporting the first confirmed death outside Asia, of a Chinese tourist, on 15 February.
‘Pandemic’
By March 6, more than 100,000 cases had been reported worldwide.
The north of Italy is locked up, quickly and the rest of the country.
On March 11 the WHO reports COVID-19 as a pandemic.
Global stock markets crash.
Governments and central banks roll out major economic support measures.
Europe under lock and key
Spain (March 14) and France (March 17) are ordering their stay-at-home numbers. Germany and Britain say that people should avoid all social contact. The 27-nation European Union closes its external borders.
On March 24, the Tokyo summer Olympics scheduled for July 2020 will be postponed for a year.
The next day the United Nations warns that the pandemic “threatens humanity as a whole”.
Half a limited world
Locking measures are in place worldwide.
On April 2, more than 3.9 billion people – half the world’s population – have been raped or called to restrict themselves, according to an AFP report. On the same day, the threshold of a million cases is crossed.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is contagious and will come under intensive care.
US aircraft maker Boeing will lose 16,000 jobs on April 29.
Many other airlines, car manufacturers, tourism industries and department stores suffer and lay off workers.
Hydroxychloroquine series
With the support of US President Donald Trump as a potential treatment, the hydroxychloroquine malaria drug has shown no benefit in treating patients with severe illness, according to British scientists on June 5th. Trump will later recommend people inject disinfectants.
Surge in Latin America
By June 7, the global death toll will reach more than 400,000.
Brazil becomes the country with the second largest death tax after the USA. His President Jair Bolsonaro has described him as a “flu”, before he could be caught. Other COVID-19 ally Donald Trump will also get it.
Masks and anti-masks
With things getting worse, several European countries are making compulsory mascara wear on public transport, in schools and shops and on the street.
Anti-mask demonstrations are being organized in London, Paris and Rome, with protesters developing to storm the Reichstag building in Berlin on 29 August.
Gloomy milestones
The millionth death mark will be awarded worldwide on September 28. Within days, diseases will begin to re-emerge in Europe, where many countries order locks locks and invitations, which are then discounted for year-end holidays.
The pandemic is gaining momentum in the U.S., where its treatment is a key issue in the bitter primary campaign.
A new spike is being reached there on January 13, 2021, with 4,470 people dying in 24 hours.
Half a million Americans are dead by February 23, with new President Joe Biden marking a higher tax than the U.S. in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
New variables
When a British variable that is believed to be more contagious emerges, Prime Minister Johnson announces a new closure on 4 January.
Other infectious rays are found in South Africa and Brazil.
The number of global deaths will double in less than four months, exceeding the two million mark on January 15, 2021.
Vaccines bring hope
Vaccination campaigns will begin in December in Britain, Russia, the US and the EU, picking up pace in early 2021. But there will be problems with delivery, particularly for the Swedish-British Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which slowing down the process in Europe.
In early March epilepsy slowed in the U.S., but picked up pace again in Europe, surpassing the death toll of 700,000 in Latin America on March 9.
On the same day, more than 300 million doses of vaccines have been given worldwide and some countries are beginning to reduce their restrictions.