At the of 2019, Chinese authorities alert WHO about pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan with numbers increasingly growing every day; by the 3rd week of January 2020, Wuhan was closed in complete shut-down. The week after, the death toll from the coronavirus surpassed the toll from the SARS epidemic back in 2002/3. And, by the 2nd week of March, the total countries affected were 121 with +150k cases globally and ... the planet changed into complete lock-down, a reality never seen or lived before.
This video shows the timeline of some of the most significant moments during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Previous SARS and MERS viruses outbreaks are still in our memory; also deadly they were far from to be so easily spread; the level of devastation that COVID-19 disease registers is largely because it is so easily transmitted.
Whether the deadly nature and rapid transmission of this new virus or the life-changing events deriving from the disease, by mid March 2020 everyone single soul on Planet Earth felt like never before. Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases and Covid-19 shows how vulnerable we remain.
This is a BBC must read article about humankind and the history of pandemics, to learn about all that has happened and maybe from where we all an learn.
