Table 1.
Timelines of COVID-19.
| Date | Events |
|---|---|
| 1 December 2019 | In Wuhan healthcare center, in China, first COVID-19 patient was detected. |
| 31 December 2019 | People in Wuhan were alerted about the warning signs of a pneumonia epidemic by the Wuhan authorities. |
| 7 January 2020 | A newly discovered virus known as coronavirus has been confirmed by Chinese researchers. |
| 10 January 2020 | WHO has made a comprehensive collection of online clinical guidance for each nation about how to detect, monitor, and cure suspected patients. For an emergency, such guidance was also reviewed with WHO Provincial Officers. Duties and assignments to be conveyed to WHO members in countries. |
| 11 January 2020 | First coronavirus-related death was reported in Wuhan. |
| 13 January 2020 | First COVID-19 case outside China was reported in Thailand. |
| 21 January 2020 | First active case of COVID-19 was identified in United States. |
| 23 January 2020 | Wuhan was shut down by Chinese authorities. |
| 24 January 2020 | First COVID-19 case was declared in France and United Kingdom. |
| 30 January 2020 | WHO has declared the virus as an international health crisis, with over 9,000 patients reported globally. India declared its first COVID-19 case. |
| 1 February 2020 | First COVID-19 case was identified in Spain. |
| 2 February 2020 | Coronavirus was found to be the cause of the first fatality outside China. |
| 28 February 2020 | First COVID-19 case was identified in New Zealand. |
| 29 February 2020 | Coronavirus was found to be the cause of the first death in the United States. |
| 11 March 2020 | WHO declared the disease outbreak caused by novel coronavirus as pandemic. |
| 19 March 2020 | There have been no newly identified cases in China since pandemic began. |
| 24 March 2020 | Olympics was postponed till 2021 due to outbreak. |
| 1 April 2020 | A six-week-old baby died of coronavirus. |
| 2 April 2020 | COVID-19 cases cross one million as per John Hopkins report. |
| 8 April 2020 | Wuhan reopened after a lockdown of 76 days. |
| 11 April 2020 | Global COVID-19 cases have reached 1.7 million with 100,000 fatalities. In the United States, COVID-19 deaths have reached 20,000, highest in world. |
| 20 April 2020 | Global market crashed, causing oil prices in the United States to fall in negative. |
| 28 April 2020 | COVID-19 cases in United States crossed 1 million. |
| 7 May 2020 | WHO cautions that if COVID-19 is not contained, it can kill around 83,000 to 190,000 humans in African countries by 2020. |
| 27 May 2020 | Greater than 100,000 fatalities reported across United States. |
| 2 June 2020 | For first time, Wuhan did not record any new case. |
| 8 June 2020 | New Zealand has declared itself a COVID-19-free nation. |
| 11 June 2020 | COVID-19 cases in United States crossed 2 million. |
| 3 July 2020 | Global COVID-19 cases touched 11 million. |
| 7 July 2020 | United States formally withdraws from WHO. President of Brazil got infected with COVID-19 |
| 21 July 2020 | European leaders have agreed to establish a €750 billion recovery fund for rebuilding European union economies ruined by COVID-19. |
| 11 August 2020 | Russian President reveals that Sputnik-V vaccine has been licensed for public usage in Russia, even though Phase 3 trials, which are generally required before clearance, have yet to be completed. Sputnik-V vaccine is being developed by Gamaleya Institute in Moscow. |
| 15August 2020 | Production of Sputnik-V began in Russia. |
| 23August 2020 | FDA grants an emergency use approval for using convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19. |
| 27 August 2020 | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has informed public health officials across the United States to make preparation for distribution of coronavirus vaccine by late Oct. 2020. |
| 4 September 2020 | The Lancet has published the first peer-reviewed outcomes of Phase 1 and Phase 2 clinical trials of Sputnik-V vaccine. |
| 2 October 2020 | Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested +ive for COVID-19. |
| 12 October 2020 | Advance clinical trials of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine have been halted due to an unexplainable sickness of a volunteer. |
| 10 December 2020 | The FDA's vaccine advisors voted to advise agency to grant emergency use approval to Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine. |
| 18 December2020 | Moderna's coronavirus vaccine has been approved for emergency use by FDA. |
| 14 January 2021 | WHO team entrusted with determining the cause of the disease outbreak in Wuhan reached China. |
| 20 January 2021 | U S withdrawal from WHO has been halted by US President Joe Biden. |
| 22 February 2021 | In US, fatalities from COVID-19 have surpassed 500,000. |
| 27 February 2021 | Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, the first single dose COVID-19 vaccine accessible in the United States, has been granted emergency use approval by FDA. |
| 30 March 2021 | As per a 120-page WHO report, the novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19 likely to spread to human beings via an animal and likely began circulating in human beings not more than a month or two before it was discovered in Dec. 2019. |
| 17 April 2021 | As per Johns Hopkins report, the global death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 3 million. |
| 3 August 2021 | Highly infectious Delta variant is responsible for an approximate 93.4 percent of coronavirus spreading in the United States during the last 2 weeks in July, as per CDC estimates. |
| 12 August 2021 | For a few immunocompromised persons, FDA has approved a booster COVID-19 vaccination dose. |
| 23 August 2021 | Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is the first coronavirus vaccine to receive FDA approval for persons aged 16 and above. |
| 7 October 2021 | Pfizer and BioNTech have filed an emergency use approval of their COVID-19 vaccine with FDA for children aged 5 to 11. |
| 1 November 2021 | Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 5 million. |
| 2 November 2021 | Director of US CDC Dr. Rochelle Wilensky, endorses a recommendation for vaccinating children against COVID-19, aged 5–11. |
| 3 November 2021 | WHO issues emergency use approval for Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. |
| 4 November 2021 | Novavax completes procedure for emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine with WHO. |
| 19 November 2021 | Booster shots of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for all adults, authorized by FDA, also endorsed by CDC. |
| 24 November 2021 | From South Africa, B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO. |
| 26 November 2021 | WHO stated the variant B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern, called it Omicron. Europe's first case of new Omicron variant confirmed in Belgium. |
| 27 November 2021 | UK, Italy, and Germany confirmed their 2 cases of new Omicron variant. |
| 28 November2021 | Denmark reported 2 cases of new Omicron variant in travellers from South Africa. |