At least 19 countries whose first cases were linked - to Wuhan or China Posted: Apr 7th, 2020 - 12:02 pm In Reply to: The subtitle is "Critics are letting their disdain for the - president blind them to geopolitical
Apple Daily, a Hong Kong based newspaper, published an article today saying that there are at least 19 countries whose first cases were linked to Wuhan or China, so I did some Google-flu/ Wiki-flu to back up the claim.
On 20 January, the first confirmed case was identified as a 35-year-old Chinese woman. The first South Korean national to be infected occurred three days later was a 55-year-old man who worked in Wuhan and returned for a checkup with flu symptoms. The two infection reports were publicly released on 24 January.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_South_Korea
On January 30, India reported its first case of COVID-19 in Kerala, which rose to three cases by February 3; all were students who had returned from Wuhan, China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_India
The first known case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was confirmed on January 20, 2020, in a 35-year-old returnee from Wuhan, China, five days earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States
The first case to be recorded in Australia was on 25 January 2020 in Victoria, when a man returning from Wuhan, China, was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Australia
On January 25, the first identified presumptive case in Canada was a male in his 50s who travelled between Wuhan and Guangzhou before returning to Toronto on January 22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Canada
On 27 January 2020, the Bavarian Ministry of Health announced that a 33-year-old employee of Webasto, a German car parts supplier at Starnberg, Bavaria tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.[5] He contracted the infection from a Chinese colleague who had received a visit in Shanghai from her parents from Wuhan.[25] His was the first known case of a person contracting the virus outside of China from a non-relative – the first known transmission of the virus outside China being father to son in Vietnam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Germany
On January 30, India reported its first case of COVID-19 in Kerala, which rose to three cases by February 3; all were students who had returned from Wuhan, China.[24][25] No significant rise in cases was seen in the rest of February. On 4 March, 22 new cases came to light, including those of an Italian tourist group with 14 infected members
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_India
On 31 January, two cases were confirmed, one in Tyumen, another in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai. Both were Chinese nationals, who have since recovered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Russia
On 31 January, the first two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Rome. A Chinese couple, originally from Wuhan, who had arrived in Italy on 23 January via Milan Malpensa Airport, travelled from the airport to Verona, then to Parma, arriving in Rome on 28 January.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy
On 31 January, two members of a family of Chinese nationals staying in a hotel in York, one of whom studied at the University of York, became the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom
On 21 January, the first case in Taiwan was confirmed in a 50-year-old woman who just returned to Taoyuan International Airport from her teaching job in Wuhan.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Taiwan
On 22 January, a man from Mainland China, aged 39, who travelled from Shenzhen and arrived in Hong Kong by high-speed rail developed symptoms of pneumonia. He lived in Wuhan and he had arrived in Shenzhen by highspeed rail with his family. He tested positive for the virus and was hospitalised in Princess Margaret Hospital, Kowloon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Hong_Kong
On 22 January 2020, Macau confirmed two COVID-19 cases, that of a 52-year-old woman and of a 66-year-old man, both from Wuhan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Macau
The first case in Singapore was confirmed, involving a 66-year-old Chinese national from Wuhan who flew from Guangzhou via China Southern Airlines flight CZ351 with nine companions. He stayed at Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort and Spa. Contact tracing subsequently commenced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Singapore
A resident of Kanagawa Prefecture in his 30's who had previously travelled to Wuhan developed a fever on 3 January and subsequently returned to Japan on 6 January. He tested positive during a hospital admission between 10 and 15 January. He had not visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, but possibly had close contact with an affected person in Wuhan.[8][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Japan
On 23 January, Vietnam confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19, a Chinese man (#1) travelling from Wuhan to Hanoi to visit his son who lived in Vietnam, and his son (#2), who was believed to have contracted the disease from his father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Vietnam
The first case was confirmed on 24 January in a 32-year-old man who had recently returned from China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Nepal
On 24 January, the first COVID-19 case in Europe was confirmed in Bordeaux. A 48-year-old French citizen from China, who arrived in France on 22 January, was hospitalised at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_France
At 3 p.m, the first case had been confirmed in Sihanoukville on a 60-year-old Chinese man who arrived in 23 January from Wuhan, Hubei with his family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Cambodia
On 29 January, the first case in the UAE was confirmed to be a 73-year-old Chinese woman who came to the country on holiday with her family from Wuhan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
On 29 January, Finland confirmed the first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).[10] A 32-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan sought medical attention in Ivalo and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. She had travelled from Wuhan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Finland
On 2 February, Belgian nationals living in Hubei were repatriated on an evacuation flight landing at Melsbroek Air Base close to Brussels, before being transferred to the Military Hospital of Neder-over-Heembeek where they underwent a 14-day quarantine and got tested for infection with the virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Belgium
The first case of COVID-19 in the Philippines was confirmed on January 30. The diagnosed patient was a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease, who had arrived in Manila from Hong Kong on January 21.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_Philippines
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