WHO names the disease caused by the coronavirus “covid-19” or” coronavirus disease 2019”, after the year the first cases were reported.ġ5 February First death recorded outside Asia
The UK reports its first case on 31 January. The first case of coronavirus in Europe is confirmed in France. All travel in and out of the city is prohibited.Ģ5 January The coronavirus makes it to Europe Wuhan is put under a strict lockdown by the Chinese government. As countries, including the UK, are preparing to lift restrictions, we look back at a year that changed the world forever.Īn empty roadway is seen on Februin Wuhan, Hubei province, China. But this represents less than 1 per cent of the world’s population, and while the vaccine offers a glimmer of hope for a return to normal, there is still a long way to go.
With many vaccines now approved, over 300 million doses have been administered, and over 65 million people are now fully vaccinated. As infections surged worldwide, new, highly transmissible variants of the virus were identified and are circulating ever further. World leaders became ill, entire countries were locked down to prevent the spread of infection and international travel ceased.Īs most governments struggled to contain the virus, scientists were rushing to identify and find treatments that worked against covid-19. Beginning as an unexplained, pneumonia-like illness, first detected in China’s Wuhan province, it has since spread to almost every country, bringing life across most of the world to a near-standstill for the last year. Since the first case of infection with this new coronavirus was reported in China in December 2019, SARS-CoV-2, as we now know it to be called, has killed over 2.5 million people and infected at least 116 million. A year ago this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic.
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