COVID – 19, Monday 4th May
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Vaccine
Oxford conference to organise resources
Not US, India, China
$4.5 – 8 billion
Globally available and affordable
18 months for scaled up vaccine
Testing and therapeutics
160 UK hospitals trailing therapeutics
US, vaccine by the end of the year
Viral origins
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ‘enormous evidence’ that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Emerging viruses group in Wuhan Institute of virology
MI 6, China, first wave, x4, about 250,000
Australian source, ‘Despite evidence of human to human transmission from early December, Chinese authorities deny it until January 20.’
Time line
December 31st in 2019
27 cases of atypical viral pneumonia in Wuhan
January 3rd
44 cases
Traced to South China Seafood City
January 8th
Coronavirus identified on Chinese state media
January 11th
61 year old man dies, severe underlying health issues
Risk of human to human transmission low
January 17th
US starts screening flights from Wuhan
January 20th
Beijing, Shenzhen, Thailand, Japan
Person to person transmission
January 22nd
Wuhan travel lockdown
Deaths 17
January 24th
China transport links shut down in 13 cities
Threat to the UK is “low”.
January 30th
WHO, global health emergency.
January 31st
US, public health emergency
February 6th
Dr Li Wenliang
February 19
Passengers leave Diamond Princess
February 22nd
Italy deaths
February 24th
Pandemic.
February 29th
Republic of Ireland, first case
March 5th
UK death
March 11th
WHO pandemic
The Covid-19 outbreak is declared a pandemic by the WHO.
March 14th
US travel ban extended to the UK and Ireland
March 20th
Pubs closed
March 23rd
UK lockdown
Link for Elaine the runner,
Chinese data wrong
