The timeline for the virus is updating constantly. I'll try to keep this one up to date.
In late December members of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and others reported and published a report on people with severe pneumonia who were admitted to the intensive care unit of the Wuhan Jin Yin-Tan Hospital at the beginning of the outbreak.
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Dec 1 | | China suspected first case emerges |
Dec 27 | | France suspected first case emerges |
Dec 31 | | China alerts WHO to new virus. |
Jan 16 | | Japan first case |
Jan 17 | | Thailand first case |
Jan 22 | | Macau and Hong Kong cases |
Jan 23 | | Study reveals a third of China’s patients require intensive care |
Jan 24 | | Boris Johnson misses first Cobra meeting; Japan, South Korea, and the United States confirm second cases |
Jan 25 | | Australia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia cases |
Jan 27 | | Leung warns true cases 10 times greater than reports |
Jan 29 | | Johnson misses second Cobra meeting. Germany and Brazil cases |
Jan 30 | | Tibet, Emirates, Finland, Singapore, France cases |
Jan 30 | | Trump warned of pandemic costing millions of US lives |
Jan 31 | | NHS declares first ever ‘Level 4 critical incident’. government declines to join EU PPE scheme UK, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Canada cases.
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Feb 5 | | Johnson misses third Cobra meeting |
Feb 12 | | Boris Johnson misses fourth Cobra meeting |
Feb 13 | | Johnson misses conference call with European leaders |
Feb 14 | | Johnson goes away on holiday. Aides are told keeps Johnson’s briefing notes short or he will not read them. |
Feb 18 | | Johnson misses fifth cobra meeting. |
Feb 29 | | Johnson retreats to his country manor as NHS warns of ‘PPE shortage nightmare’ |
Mar 2 | | Johnson attends his first Cobra meeting, declining another opportunity to join EU PPE scheme. Tells country “We are very, very well prepared.” |
Mar 4 | | Government halts daily updates on virus following a 70% spike in UK cases. |
Mar 7 | | Johnson joins 82,000 people at Six Nations match |
Mar 9 | | Ireland cancels St Patrick’s day parades; government says “No Rationale” for cancelling sporting events./td]
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Mar 10 | | Cheltenham takes place; more than a quarter of a million people attend |
Mar 11 | | 3,000 Atletico Madrid fans fly to Liverpool. |
Mar 12 | | Johnson states banning events such as Cheltenham will have little effect. Imperial study finds government’s plan is projected to kill half a million |
Mar 13 | | Premier League suspended, citing an absence of Government guidance. |
Mar 13 | | Britain is invited to join European scheme for joint purchase of ventilators, and refuses. |
Mar 13 | | Johnson lifts restrictions of those arriving from Coronavirus hot spots. |
Mar 14 | | Stereophonics play to 5,000 people in Cardiff.
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Mar 16 | | Johnson suggests move to create more ventilators be called 'operation last gasp'. |
Mar 19 | | Hospital patients with Coronavirus returned to care homes prompting boom in virus cases in care homes. |
Mar 20 | | Government states PPE shortage is “Completely resolved” In days, the BMA reports an acute shortage in PPE |
Mar 23 | | UK Lockdown |
Mar 26 | | Having not joining EU ventilator scheme government then state uit was becuse they'd ‘missed the email’ |
Apr 1 | | Evening Standard publishes that just 0.17% of NHS staff have been tested for the virus. |
Apr 3 | | UK death toll overtakes China |
Apr 7 | | Johnson moved to Intensive Care |
Apr 16 | | Flights bring 15,000 people a day into the UK - without virus testing. |
Apr 17 | | Hancock says “I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE fall from the sky.” The UK has now missed 4 chances to join EU’s PPE scheme. |
Apr 21 | | The Government fails to reach its target of face masks for the NHS, as it is revealed manufacturer's offers of help were met with silence. Instead millions of pieces of PPE are being shipped from the UK to Europe. |
Apr 23 | | Government announces testing kits for 10 million key workers. Orders run out within minutes as only 5,000 are made available. |
Apr 25 | | UK death toll from Coronavirus overtakes that of The Blitz. |
Apr 30 | | Johnson announces the UK has succeeded in avoiding a tragedy that had engulfed other parts of the world |
May 1 | | Government announces it has reached its target of 100,000 tests, althuogh most were only posted out |
May 5 | | The UK death toll becomes the highest in Europe. |
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which illustrates perfectly the number of deaths per country over time.