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From CRS,timeline:
- Late December: A case of pneumonia of unknown cause was discovered in a hospital in Wuhan, China.
- December 30: Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued an “emergency notice” to the city hospital regarding atypical pneumonia cases related to the South China Seafood Wholesale Market in the city. The notice leaked online. | Wuhan medical staff, including ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, exchanged information about the case in an online chat group.
- December 31: The machine translation of Chinese media reports on the epidemic was published to ProMED, an open access platform headquartered in the United States, used to provide early intelligence on outbreaks of infectious diseases. WHO’s Geneva headquarters saw the ProMED post and instructed the WHO China country office to request the Chinese government to verify the epidemic. | The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission issued a public statement on the epidemic for the first time, stating that 27 cases have been confirmed.
- January 1: Wuhan authorities closed the city’s South China Seafood Wholesale Market.
- January 3: Dr. Li Wenliang was condemned by the local police in Wuhan for allegedly spreading false statements about the epidemic on the Internet. | China CDC Director General Gao Fu introduced the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan to Robert Redfield, Director of the US CDC.
- January 4: In its first public statement on the epidemic, the WHO wrote on Twitter: “China has reported to the WHO a group of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and no deaths. “
- January 6th: US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar II and US Centers for Disease Control Director Redfield proposed to send US CDC experts to China. | The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an “Observation Level 1 Alert” to Wuhan, recommending that passengers traveling to Wuhan avoid animals, animal markets and animal products.
- January 11: A team led by Professor Zhang Yongzhen from Fudan University released the virus gene sequence on the open access platform to share with the world. | The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and two other Chinese teams subsequently released the genetic sequence of the virus on an open access platform. | China and WHO share the genome sequence of the virus.
- January 12: Dr. Li Wenliang was hospitalized with symptoms of the new coronavirus.
- January 20: China confirms that the new coronavirus has spread from person to person and infection among medical staff.
- January 21: The US CDC announced the first case of the new coronavirus in the United States. The patient returned from Wuhan on January 15, 2020.
- January 23: Wuhan suspends public transportation and prohibits residents from leaving the city.
Related to this, DNI has issued a Uncategorized abstract Its investigation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 / Covid-19.
