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What is COVID-19? | Where is COVID-19?
Tracking Variants | Tracking COVID-19 over time
COVID-19 is an illness first detected in Wuhan, China and reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Dec 31, 2019. It is caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (also known as SARS-CoV-2 or 2019-nCoV). The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 20, 2020.
On February 11 2020, the WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease: COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the outbreak to be a pandemic, the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus.
(Source: WHO Rolling Updates on Coronavirus & Timelines: WHO's Timeline of Response) | Updated Aug 13, 2020)
Image source: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker - Canada
More about this dashboard. N. Little. COVID-19 Tracker Canada (2020), COVID19Tracker.ca
Compiled by Canadian volunteers, including undergraduates from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto. Data sources from provincial government data. Includes vaccine administration gap tracking.
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