Watch | A Timeline of How Coronavirus Spread Across the World

Name: Watch | A Timeline of How Coronavirus Spread Across the World - The Wire
Uploaded: 2020-04-02T20:56:35+05:30
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Description: An explainer on the journey of the global pandemic.

An explainer on the journey of the global pandemic.

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An explainer on the journey of the global pandemic.

watch a timeline of how coronavirus spread across the world

FILE PHOTO: Medical staff in protective gear work at a 'drive-thru' testing center for the novel coronavirus disease of COVID-19 in Yeungnam University Medical Center in Daegu, South Korea, March 3, 2020. To match Special Report HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/RESPONSE REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

In December 2019, the novel coronavirus was first detected in China's Wuhan province when a group pf people started reporting sick at a central hospital there.

From Wuhan, the virus then travelled to other regions in the country. As the Lunar New Year celebrations in China began, the virus travelled outside China and gripped nations like Italy and the United States. Watch how coronavirus spread across the globe in this video.

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This article went live on April second, two thousand twenty, at fifty-six minutes past eight in the evening.

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