Answer: January 10, 2020. WHO (World Health Organization) begins using the phrase “2019 Novel Coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV” to refer to disease causing the outbreak in Wuhan, China.
January 20, 2020CDC reports the first laboratory-confirmed case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. Washington state on the same day activates its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to respond to the emerging outbreak.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic.
In the United States, the first coronavirus‐related activity restrictions were issued on March 12, 2020,