WHO Statement regarding cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, …
Jan 9, 2020 · Chinese authorities have made a preliminary determination of a novel (or new) coronavirus, identified in a hospitalized person with pneumonia in Wuhan. Chinese investigators conducted gene sequencing of the virus, using an isolate from one positive patient sample.
Milestone: COVID-19 five years ago - World Health Organization …
Dec 30, 2024 · Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO’s Country Office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, China.
Pneumonia of unknown cause – China - World Health Organization …
As of 3 January 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to WHO by the national authorities in China. Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition.
WHO continues to urge China to share data five years after COVID …
Dec 31, 2024 · The World Health Organization (WHO) this week reflected on COVID-19, and ongoing efforts to understand the disease, five years after its emergence. WHO recalled that on 31 December 2019, its...
Covid-19: WHO urges more investigation into Chinese Wuhan 'lab …
The World Health Organization is recommending more investigation into the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory, something once dismissed by some as a conspiracy theory...
WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from
Dec 31, 2024 · The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China - BBC
Dec 30, 2024 · The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan. "This is a moral and scientific imperative,"...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don’t know …
Jan 2, 2025 · Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause.
Cause of Wuhan's Mysterious Pneumonia Cases Still Unknown, Chinese ...
Jan 6, 2020 · The cause of mysterious pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains unknown, health authorities in the city said Sunday, as the number of infected people rose to 59 from 44 on Friday.
Questions still swirl over China's unexplained pneumonia outbreak
Wuhan cluster grows to 59. Wuhan health officials said 7 of the 59 patients are critically ill, a decline from 11 reported Jan 3, and they added that illness onsets range from Dec 12 to Dec 29, according to a statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.