Key Dates
November 17, 2019: 55 year old from Huei province in China suspected to be first person to contract the Corona Virus. Evidence now indicates the virus may not have begun at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan. It is suspected the virus came from a bat whih infected an anteater before infecting people in Hubei Province.
December 31, 2019: China reports several cases of pneumonia in people who were at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan in the Hubei Province in China. China neglected to state the virus had begun on Nov 17 and by Dec 31 there were 266 known cases.
January 7, 2020 Health authorities in China confirmed these cases of pneumonia was from the novel coronavirus named "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronvirus 2". China also provided the complete genetic sequence of 2019 -nCoV to the National Institutes of Health GenBank database.
January 20, 2020: First confirmed case in United States. The 35 year old man returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China on January 15, 2020
January 31, 2020: Trump imposes travel ban on any foreign national who traveled within China in the past 14 days. Any US citizens who traveled to in China would be asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.
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