The document discusses the COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan in February 2020 and provides a timeline of significant events from the initial outbreak in December 2019 to May 2020, including the initial outbreak centered in China then spreading to Europe, especially Italy and Spain, before the United States surpassed all countries in confirmed cases.
The document discusses the COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan in February 2020 and provides a timeline of significant events from the initial outbreak in December 2019 to May 2020, including the initial outbreak centered in China then spreading to Europe, especially Italy and Spain, before the United States surpassed all countries in confirmed cases.
The document discusses the COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan in February 2020 and provides a timeline of significant events from the initial outbreak in December 2019 to May 2020, including the initial outbreak centered in China then spreading to Europe, especially Italy and Spain, before the United States surpassed all countries in confirmed cases.
Japanese waters (Port of Yokohama), as well as on other cruise ships around the world (239) (Fig. 3). The significant events of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID- 19 virus outbreak occurring since 8 Desember 2019 are Presented as a timeline in Fig.5.
FIG 5 Timeline depicting the significant events that
oucurred during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 virus outbreak. The timeline describes the significant event during the current SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, from 8 Desember 2019 to 13 may 2020.
At the begening, China experienced the majority
of the burden associated with COVID-19 in the form of disease morbidity and mortality (65), but over time the COVID-19 menace moved to Europe, particularly Italy and spain, and now the United States has the highest number of comfirmed cases