Coronavirus, un anno fa l’annuncio dell’inizio dell’epidemia a Wuhan

Il 31 dicembre 2019 le autorità cinesi hanno segnalato all’Oms diversi casi di una misteriosa polmonite che poi sarà chiamata Covid-19. Da quel giorno è cominciato a diffondersi l’allarme e il virus si è esteso in tutto il mondo, portando alla pandemia globale ancora in corso

epa08908868 People wearing protective face masks cross a road with an umbrella protecting them from the snow in Wuhan, China, 29 December 2020. Life in Wuhan, a Chinese city of more than 11 million, which nearly a year ago became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak is returning to normal. Since May the capital of Hubei province has not recorded locally-transmitted cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY

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È passato un anno esatto da quando la Cina ha segnalato l’inizio di una sconosciuta malattia a Wuhan, segnando di fatto l'inizio di quella che diventerà la pandemia globale di coronavirus

Coronavirus, le tappe dei contagi. FOTO

epa08144033 Chinese people wear masks near the Ttiananmen Gate Tower in Beijing, China, 20 January 2020. China reported on 20 January an additional death and surge of 139 new confirmed cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus linked to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak. EPA/WU HONG

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Il 31 dicembre del 2019 le autorità cinesi hanno avvisato l’Oms della diffusione di una misteriosa polmonite che stava colpendo decine di persone

Covid, Oms: pandemia grave ma potrebbe arrivare di peggio

epa08908867 A man wearing a protective face mask walks under the snow in Wuhan, China, 29 December 2020. Life in Wuhan, a Chinese city of more than 11 million, which nearly a year ago became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak is returning to normal. Since May the capital of Hubei province has not recorded locally-transmitted cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY

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L’epicentro era nella città commerciale della provincia di Hubei, ormai diventata famosa come primo focolaio di Covid-19

Covid, i Paesi con più casi

epa08143670 A woman wears a mask while walking past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of a new strain of Coronavirus identified as the cause of the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 20 January 2020. China reported on 20 January an additional death and surge of 139 new confirmed cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus linked to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 198 with three deaths so far. EPA/STR CHINA OUT

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Il virus, all’epoca sconosciuto, stava colpendo in particolare coloro che lavoravano al mercato del pesce e di animali vivi di Huanan, nel centro di Wuhan

epa08168541 A fully protected ambulance driver takes a box of medical supplies to the hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 26 January 2020 (issued 27 January 2020). According to media reports, Wuhan is widely considered as the origin point of the coronavirus outbreak. The virus outbreak has so far killed at least 56 people with around 2,000 infected, mostly in China. EPA/YUAN ZHENG CHINA OUT

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Il 31 dicembre di un anno fa ha iniziato a diffondersi la notizia di un’epidemia che, nel giro di 365 giorni, si è diffusa in tutto il mondo paralizzando Paesi interi e provocando milioni di casi ovunque e quasi due milioni di vittime

epa08146228 Professor Gabriel Leung (R), Chair Professor of Public Health Medicine, HKUMed, and Founding Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology attends a press conference about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong, China, 21 January 2020. China has confirmed human-to-human transmission of a new SARS-like virus as authorities said a fourth person had died. EPA/JEROME FAVRE

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La comunità scientifica cinese è riuscita presto a identificre il nuovo virus: fa parte dei coronavirus come la Sars e la Mers

epa08889218 A security guard wearing a face mask stands on an observation deck in Tokyo, Japan, 04 December 2020 (issued 17 December 2020). According to media reports, Tokyo recorded more than 800 infection of SARS-CoV-2 on 17 December, a record daily number. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON

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Dalla Cina il virus è arrivato presto in Thailandia, Corea del Sud e Giappone

epa08140316 Medical staff carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected with a new strain of Coronavirus identified as the cause of the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak are being treated, in Wuhan, China, 18 January 2020 (issued 19 January 2020). China on 19 January 2020 reported 17 new cases of the new mysterious SARS-like virus linked to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak that has killed two people and sickened at least 62, raising fears ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays where millions of people are expected to travel around the country. EPA/STRINGER CHINA OUT

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Il 20 gennaio gli esperti cinesi rivelano che il virus si trasmette da uomo a uomo. Intanto la moglie della prima vittima avverte i sintomi del nuovo coronavirus poco dopo la morte del marito

epa08149566 A boy (C) wearing a face mask, who arrived from Guangzhou, China sits on top of a luggage at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, 22 January 2020. According to media reports, at least nine people have died and more than 400 people are confirmed infected by a new respiratory virus which was first detected in Wuhan, China. The virus, called the coronavirus, can be passed between humans and has spread to the USA, Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. EPA/MARK R. CRISTINO

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Il 23 gennaio le autorità decidono il lockdown per Wuhan, ma milioni di cittadini sono già partiti per festeggiare il capodanno cinese

epa08143671 A Chinese cyclist is seen with a mask while riding past a bus station near the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of a new strain of Coronavirus identified as the cause of the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 20 January 2020. China reported on 20 January an additional death and surge of 139 new confirmed cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus linked to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 198 with three deaths so far. EPA/STR CHINA OUT

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In seguito vengono bloccate altre regioni cinesi e viene imposto l’obbligo di indossare la mascherina e di non uscire di casa

epa08175302 A general aerial view of the construction site of the 1,000-bed Huoshenshan temporary hospital for 2019-nCoV (coronavirus) patients in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province in China, 28 January 2020 (Issued on 29 January 2020). The hospital is scheduled to be completed in 10 days, to be manned by doctors and nurses coming from around China. According to media reports, Chinese authorities have urged people to stop travelling in and out of Wuhan, the city at the center of the new virus outbreak that has so far killed at least 106 people and infected over four thousand others around the globe, mostly in China. EPA/SHI YI CHINA OUT

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La Cina inaugura un nuovo ospedale a Wuhan in tempi record per rimediare al numero insufficiente di posti in terapia intensiva

epa08200079 Mourners pay their respect to Chinese doctor Li Wenliang during a mourning ceremony in Hong Kong, China, 07 February 2020. Mainland health officials have confirmed the death of Li, who was one of the first to raise concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, before contracting the infection himself. Li was silenced by police after trying weeks ago to raise the alarm about the new coronavirus. EPA/JEROME FAVRE

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Il 7 febbraio viene comunicata la morte di Li Wenliang, il primo medico a dare l’allarme sulla presenza di un nuovo ceppo di coronavirus. L'uomo era inizialmente stato accusato dalle autorità cinesi di diffondere false notizie

epa08200081 A mourner pays respect to Chinese doctor Li Wenliang during a mourning ceremony in Hong Kong, China, 07 February 2020. Mainland health officials have confirmed the death of Li, who was one of the first to raise concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, before contracting the infection himself. Li was silenced by police after trying weeks ago to raise the alarm about the new coronavirus. EPA/JEROME FAVRE

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Li Wenliang, due mesi dopo, è stato proclamato eroe nazionale. Il lockdown a Wuhan, invece, dura in totale 76 giorni e si conclude l’8 aprile 2020

Health workers, doctors and nurses work outside the Codogno Civic Hospital, Lodi, Italy, 21 February 2020. The first three people have been infected with the coronavirus in Italy. The first is a man, 38, who is believed to have got the virus after dining with a friend who had come back from China. The man has been admitted to the intensive care ward of a hospital at Codogno near Lodi in northern Italy. /ANSA/ANDREA FASANI

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La pandemia, però, ormai si è diffusa negli altri continenti. In Italia il primo focolaio si accerta in Lombardia. Al nuovo virus viene dato il nome di Sars-Cov-2

epa08224971 Medical staff in protective suits work at Wuhan Fang Cang makeshift hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, 17 February 2020 (issued 18 February 2020). The disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has so far killed more than 1,800 people with over 73,000 infected worldwide, mostly in China. EPA/STRINGER CHINA OUT

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Il 13 giugno un nuovo focolaio scoppia in Cina a Pechino dove si registrano circa 100 nuovi contagi dopo 55 giorni a zero casi. Di nuovo l’origine del contagio viene rintracciata in un mercato che viene chiuso

epa08517227 A medical worker performs a COVID-19 test on a man at a hospital in Beijing, China, 30 June 2020. According to media reports, China has reinstated a strict lockdown in Anxin county of Hebei province, near Chinese capital Beijing. The lockdown is expected to effecting about 400,000 people. EPA/WU HONG

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Lockdown in 27 aree cittadine di Pechino, scuole chiuse e 2,3 milioni di persone vengono sottoposte a tampone molecolare

epa08227208 Two doctors, both recovered from COVID-19 after a 14-day quarantine, donate plasma at a clinic in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 18 February 2020 (issued 19 February 2020). Plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients contains antibodies that can help reduce the virus impact in critically ill patients, according to China's National Health Commission. EPA/YUAN ZHENG CHINA OUT

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Circa un mese dopo Pechino autorizza l’uso di emergenza dei vaccini sperimentali

epa08615865 People enjoy a music party inside a swimming pool at the Wuhan Maya Beach Park in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 15 August 2020 (issued 21 August 2020). Huge crowds gathered for the pool party in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. According to Chinese authorities, the photos and videos of the party that sparked worldwide outrage, show how effectively the country has recovered from the pandemic. EPA/STR CHINA OUT

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A metà agosto iniziano a circolare le immagini di persone che ballano intorno a una piscina l’una vicina all’altra a Wuhan. L’epidemia nella prima città focolaio sembra sconfitta e la Cina si mobilita per vaccinare 50 milioni di persone prima del capodanno lunare di febbraio 2021

Dec 17, 2020; Freehold Township, NJ, USA; Empty Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vials are shown at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township, NJ, Thursday, December 17, 2020. The hospital started vaccinating its employees on Thursday. Mandatory Credit: Thomas P. Costello-USA TODAY NETWORK/Sipa USA (Freehold Township - 2020-12-17, Thomas P. Costello / IPA) p.s. la foto e' utilizzabile nel rispetto del contesto in cui e' stata scattata, e senza intento diffamatorio del decoro delle persone rappresentate

Nel resto del mondo le vaccinazioni iniziano a fine 2020, dando così il via a quello che in tanti sperano essere l’inizio della fine della pandemia che ha provocato milioni di vittime e causato pesanti contraccolpi all’economia mondiale