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The study showed that amongst the major western European countries, those with the highest rates were Italy with 227, Portugal 202, Spain 187, Belgium 147, and the Netherlands 140. The average was 140 and below that were the United Kingdom at 127, France 124, and Germany 121 - the difference between these three was not statistically significant ...
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]
Following warnings and increased preparedness in the 2000s, the 2009 swine flu pandemic led to rapid anti-pandemic reactions amongst the Western countries. The H1N1/09 virus strain with mild symptoms and low lethality eventually led to a backlash over public sector over-reactiveness, spending, and the high cost of the 2009 flu vaccine.
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.
Flu became more widely referred to as coqueluche and coccolucio in France and Sicily during this pandemic, [13] [14] variations of which became the most popular names for flu in early modern Europe. [1] The pandemic caused significant disruption in government, church, and society [15] [3] [6] with near-universal infection [16] and a mortality ...
The pandemic disrupted food systems worldwide, [551] [552] hitting at a time when hunger and undernourishment were rising- an estimated 690 million people lacked food security in 2019. [553] Food access fell – driven by falling incomes, lost remittances, and disruptions to food production. [ 554 ]
Modern humans ventured into northern Europe under extremely cold climate conditions and were living side by side with Neanderthals more than 45,000 years ago, according to new evidence.
The pandemic resulted in the largest number of shutdowns worldwide at the same time in history. [511] By 26 March, 1.7 billion people worldwide were under some form of lockdown, [512] which increased to 3.9 billion people by the first week of April – more than half of the world's population.