This site has a focus on China but has been avoiding the Wuhan coronavirus because we could not add useful information to the cause. Today we reviewed many press releases and articles to develop a useful timeline of events relating to the coronavirus:
At this point some of the facts are becoming fuzzy so here is the timeline of the first 45 days with coronavirus:
| Date | Wuhan Coronavirus Details |
| Dec 28 2019 | Pneumonia cases linked to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan China |
| Dec 30 2019 | Eye Doctor Li Wenliang issues PRIVATE chat message about cases being SARS |
| Dec 31 2019 | World Health Organization, NHC & China Center for Disease Control quietly announce outbreak |
| Jan 1 2020 | China CDC starts Coronavirus gene sequencing |
| Jan 3 2020 | Huanan Seafood Market closed and China CDC completes Coronavirus gene sequencing and releases it to World Health Organization |
| Jan 5 2020 | Chinese Government starts ’emergency monitoring’ and ‘close contact management’ in Wuhan |
| Jan 6 2020 | China announces that Wuhan pneumonia cases are not SARS or MRES |
| Jan 7 2020 | China CDC elevates threat to ‘level 2’ emergency and announces coronavirus is the ‘causative pathogen’ in the outbreak |
| Jan 9 2020 | World Health Organization names this novel coronavirus “2019-nCoV” and first person dies of coronavirus |
| Jan 10 2020 | China CDC shares coronavirus gene sequence publicly |
| Jan 11 2020 | China CDC completes work on ‘PCR reagents‘ to make a coronavirus test possible |
| Jan 13 2020 | Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announces first coronavirus death occurred Jan 9th |
| Jan 15 2020 | First confirmed coronavirus case outside of China is announced in Thailand |
| Jan 16 2020 | China CDC upgrades the coronavirus outbreak to most severe ‘level 1’ and locks down Wuhan so those with temperatures over 37.3 Celsius cannot leave |
| Jan 17 2020 | Japan announces its first confirmed case of coronavirus, which is the second international case |
| Jan 19 2020 | China announces its second coronavirus death |
| Jan 20 2020 | First confirmed coronavirus case inside China but outside Wuhan is announced and coronavirus added to Chinese “Infections Disease Health & Quarantine Law” |
| Jan 21 2020 | South Korea confirms its first case of coronavirus |
| Jan 22 2020 | US confirms its first case of coronavirus in Washington State and China CDC announces the Chinese 547 cases and a death toll of 17 |
| Jan 23 2020 | Wuhan becomes quarantined as the airport and railway stations are “temporarily” closed |
| Jan 24 2020 | China starts physical construction of a 1000 be temporary hospital using prefab building blocks and plans to complete it in 6-10 days – cancels new years events |
| Jan 25 2020 | Man in his 50’s who recently returned from Wuhan is confirms as Canada’s first case of coronavirus in Toronto |
| Jan 26 2020 | The US announces they are chartering a plane to pull diplomats out of Wuhan |
| Jan 28 2020 | The Chinese Association of Travel Services suspends all tours |
| Jan 30 2020 | Chinese President Xi Jumping meet with WHO Director and agree to send international team, including the US CDC to Wuhan & first US person to person case announced |
| Jan 31 2020 | Death toll rises to 213 and the number of cases stands at 9776 & Russia closes its 3000 kilometer border with China |
| Feb 1 2020 | Singapore and Mongolia close the borders with China to contain the virus |
| Feb 3 2020 | Death toll at 305, suspected cases 19544 & after just 8 days, China completes construction of its first temporary hospital providing 1000 new beds |
| Feb 4 2020 | Death toll at 492, suspected cases are over 20000 & Australia evacuates 243 citizens |
| Feb 5 2020 | Belgium confirms first case of coronavirus was found in a one of the 9 people it evacuated from Wuhan & 3600 passengers on a cruise ship are quarantined in Hong Kong |
| Feb 6 2020 | Death toll at 638 with 31428 coronavirus cases – China opens 2nd temporary hospital, this one has 1600 beds & announces it has 132 quarantine sites with 12500 additional beds |
| Feb 7 2020 | China removes tariffs on the importation of medical supplies & Japan announces 41 cases of coronavirus on a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama harbour |
| Feb 8 2020 | Death toll rises to 813 in China which surpasses 2002/3 SARS outbreak which killed 774 |
| Feb 9 2020 | Death toll is now at 910 people, 908 in mainland China and confirmed infections tops 40,000 & Hong Kong cruise ship passengers released after all tested negative |
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The corona virus sure looks like it came from a lab leak.