A complete timeline of the coronavirus pandemic

December 31, 2019

Chinese Health officials inform the WHO about a cluster of 41 patients with a mysterious pneumonia. Most are connected to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

January 1, 2020

Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market closes.

January 7, 2020

Chinese authorities identify the virus that caused the pneumonia-like illness as a new type of coronavirus (called novel coronavirus or nCoV).

January 11, 2020

China records its first death linked to the novel coronavirus.

January 13, 2020

Thailand reports the first coronavirus infection outside of China.

January 20, 2020

The first US case is reported: a 35-year-old man in Snohomish County, Washington.

January 23, 2020

Chinese authorities place the city of Wuhan under quarantine — and the rest of the Hubei province days later.

January 30, 2020

WHO declares a global public-health emergency.

February 2, 2020

The first coronavirus death outside China is recorded in the Philippines.

February 9, 2020

Death toll in China surpasses that of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, with 811 deaths recorded.

February 11, 2020

WHO announces that the disease caused by the novel coronavirus will be called "COVID-19."

February 12, 2020

Coronavirus cases start to spike in South Korea.

February 19, 2020

Iran's coronavirus outbreak begins.

February 21, 2020

COVID-19 cases start to spike in Italy.

March 8, 2020

Italy places all 60 million of its residents on lockdown.

February 7, 2020

Chinese doctor and coronavirus whistleblower Li Wenliang dies.

January 31, 2020

President Trump bans foreign nationals from entering the US if they had been in China within the prior two weeks.

March 11, 2020

WHO declares the outbreak a pandemic.

March 11, 2020

President Trump bans all travel from 26 European countries.

March 19, 2020

China reports no new locally spread infections for the first time since the pandemic began.

March 13, 2020

Trump declares a national emergency in the US.

March 23, 2020

New York City confirms 21,000 cases, making it the epicenter of the outbreak in the US.

March 26, 2020

Total confirmed cases in the US reach 82,404 — the highest in the world — surpassing China's 81,782 and Italy's 80,589.

March 31, 2020

More than 1/3 of humanity is under some form of lockdown.

April 7, 2020

Roughly 95% of all Americans are under lockdown, as 42 states issue stay-at-home orders.

March 3, 2020

Coronavirus cases begin to sharply increase in Spain.

April 2, 2020

The world passes 1 million COVID-19 infections.

April 10, 2020

The global death toll surpasses 100,000.

April 14, 2020

President Donald Trump orders a halt on $400 million in funding for the World Health Organization.

Updated as of June 30, 2020.

May 21, 2020

The number of global COVID-19 cases surpasses 5 million.

May 11, 2020

Several countries, such as Spain, Iran, Italy, Denmark, Israel, Germany, New Zealand, and Thailand, begin to ease their lockdown restrictions.

February 6, 2020

A person in California dies from the coronavirus, the first known American death.

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus cases start to spike in Brazil.

May 16, 2020

Coronavirus cases surge in India.

June 28, 2020

The number of global COVID-19 cases surpass 10 million, and global deaths surpass 500,000.