![]() The District of Columbia announces its first COVID-19 case, a Reverend at Christ Church Georgetown.Items specific to the District of Columbia are styled in bold. Closings, shutdowns, and emergency measures followed rapidly as officials worked to reduce transmission of the virus through social distancing, and prepare the region for the pandemic’s health and economic impacts. metropolitan regionīy early March, the virus had arrived in local Washington, D.C. Saturday February 29: The United States records its first coronavirus death and announces high-level travel restrictions and warnings for Italy, Iran, and South Korea.ĬOVID-19 in the Washington, D.C.Friday, February 21: The Italian outbreak begins.Wednesday, February 19: The Iranian outbreak begins.Friday, February 14: French officials announce a Chinese tourist has died of COVID-19 at a Paris hospital, the first COVID-19 death outside of Asia and the fourth outside mainland China.Sunday, February 2: The first COVID-19 death outside China is recorded in the Philippines.Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declares a public health emergency in the United States, a move that gives HHS flexibility in funding and other measures during the coming crisis. ![]() Thursday, January 30: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC (a designation meant to help support less developed countries and to try to prevent the virus from spreading in those places that are less equipped to detect the disease and handle infections).Thursday, January 23: Chinese officials lock down the city of Wuhan.Tuesday, January 21: The first American case of COVID-19 is reported in Snohomish County in Washington State, contracted by a person who had recently returned from the Wuhan region of China.The report came just prior to the country’s widely-celebrated New Year holiday. Saturday, January 11: Chinese state media reports the first-known COVID-19 related death.Tuesday, December 31: government officials in Wuhan, China, confirmed that health authorities were treating dozens of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause.Within two months, it spread throughout the world causing deaths and severe economic hardship. The new coronavirus emerged in China, at a seafood and poultry market. Looking ahead: Postponements and deadlines.COVID-19’s arrival in the Washington, D.C.Policy Center has compiled a high-level perspective on the timeline of the local crisis. Amid daily and even hourly news during a time with many of the region’s residents social-distancing at home, the D.C. The virus has risen to prominence in the District of Columbia and surrounding region in a few short weeks, taxing healthcare infrastructure and taking a severe toll on the economy. Officials have declared the disease a worldwide pandemic. The outbreak of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated COVID-19) has made tens of thousands of people worldwide (and counting) sick, with thousands dead and the crisis deepening daily. This article was originally published on March 24, 2019.
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