Coronavirus - WHO chronology of action
COVID-19 - a chronology of WHO actions December 31, 2019. The Municipal Health Commission of Wuhan, China, reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The causative agent was subsequently determined to be a novel coronavirus. January 1, 2020. WHO establishes an Incident Response Support Team at the three levels of the organization (headquarters, regional offices and countries) and moves into the Organization's emergency outbreak response mode. January 4, 2020. WHO reports on social media a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan city, Hubei province; all patients are alive. January 5, 2020. WHO publishes the first outbreak news release on the new virus. This is the first technical publication on the subject for the scientific and public health communities and the world's media. The release contains a risk assessment, recommendations, and information received by the Organization from China on the status of patients and public health measures taken in res...