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This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

Case statistics

Pandemic chronology

1 February

WHO Situation Report 12:^[5] (Please note that the WHO Situation Reports as official reportage stand on their own.)

• Australia reported another three cases, including the first two cases in South Australia, bringing their total to 12.^[6]
• Japan reported three more cases, increasing their total to 20.^[7]
• Singapore confirms two more cases, bringing the total to 18.^[8]
• South Korea confirmed the 12th case of the coronavirus: a 49-year-old Chinese man who works as a Japanese tour guide in western Seoul.^[9]
• Spain confirmed its first case of the virus on La Gomera in the Canaries.^[10]
• The United States of America reported its eighth case, a man from Boston who recently returned to college after traveling to Wuhan.^[11]
• Vietnam confirmed its sixth case in Khánh Hòa Province, another domestic transmission in direct contact.^[12]

2 February

WHO Situation Report 13:^[13]

• India announced its second case.^[14]
• The Philippines saw the first confirmed death from COVID-19 outside mainland China announced. The case was that of a 44-year-old male who was the companion of the first confirmed case in the country; both are Chinese nationals from Wuhan who had arrived in the country via Hong Kong on 21 January. He had been in stable condition prior to his death on 1 February.^[15]
• South Korea reported three more cases, bringing their total to 15.^[16]
• The United Arab Emirates reported its fifth case.^[17]
• The United States of America, confirmed three more cases, all in California, bringing the total to 11.^[18][19] Two Germans aboard the evacuation flight from Wuhan tested positive for the virus, bringing the number of cases there up to 12.^[20]
• Vietnam announced its seventh case of COVID-19, a Vietnamese-American who had had a two-hour layover at Wuhan Airport.^[21]

3 February

WHO Situation Report 14:^[22]

The number of deaths in Hubei outside Wuhan reached 101.

According to the WHO, there were no new countries reporting cases in the past 24 hours.

• India confirmed its third case in Kerala.^[23]
• Vietnam announced its eighth COVID-19 case, a Vietnamese woman who had been on the same flight with three other positive cases.^[24]

4 February

WHO Situation Report 15:^[25]

• Belgium confirmed its first case, bringing the total in the European Union to 24.^[26]
• Canada announced one presumptive case in British Columbia bringing the total number to five.^[27]
• Hong Kong confirmed its first death from a 39-year-old patient, the 13th confirmed case in the city.^[28]
• Malaysia confirmed two more COVID-19 cases, which included a Malaysian citizen, bringing the total to 10 cases.^[29]
• Singapore confirmed six more cases, including the first locally transmitted cases involving four, bringing the total to 24. Two others came from an evacuation plane from Wuhan.^[30]
• South Korea confirmed its 16th case after a tourist returned from Thailand, the first to have been infected there.^[31]
• Thailand confirmed six more cases, bringing the total to 25.^[32]
• Vietnam announced its ninth and tenth COVID-19 case, including a Vietnamese man who had been on the same flight with four other positive cases.^[33]

5 February

WHO Situation Report 16:^[34]

• China, in Wuhan now reported 10,117 cases in total, exceeding 10,000.^[35] Tianjin, reported its first death. Chinese experts said that nucleic acid testing was only able to identify 30%–50% positive cases.^[36]
• Hong Kong confirmed three more cases, bringing the total to 21.^[37]
• Japan confirmed 10 new cases from the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, near Yokohama, bringing the total number up to 35 cases. There were more than 3,500 on board to be tested.^[38]
• Malaysia announced two more cases, bringing the total cases to 12.^[39]
• The Philippines confirmed its third positive case, a 60-year-old woman from Wuhan, China.^[40]
• Singapore confirmed four more cases, including a six-month-old Singaporean, bringing the total cases to 28.^[41]
• South Korea confirmed two more cases of COVID-19, including a patient who returned from Singapore, bringing the total cases to 18.^[42][43] Another case was later reported, bringing the total cases to 19.^[44]
• The United States of America saw health officials in the state of Wisconsin announce the first case in that state.^[45]

6 February

WHO Situation Report 17:^[46]

• Canada announced two presumptive cases in British Columbia bringing the total number to seven.^[47]
• China, in Zhejiang over 1,000 cases were confirmed, the first such province besides Hubei.^[48] Doctor Li Wenliang, who notified his class colleagues in a private chat room on social media of the coronavirus, died of the infection.^[49]
• Germany confirmed its 13th case, and Italy confirmed its third, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Europe to 31.^[50]
• Hong Kong confirmed three more cases, bringing the total to 24.^[51]
• Japan confirmed another 10 new cases from Diamond Princess, quarantined in Yokohama, bringing the total to 45.^[52]
• Malaysia confirmed two more cases, bringing the total to 14. One of the cases was locally transmitted, the first in Malaysia.^[53][54]
• Singapore confirmed two more cases, bringing the total to 30.^[55]
• South Korea confirmed four more cases, bringing the total to 23.^[56]
• Taiwan announced three more cases, bringing the total to 16.^[57]
• The United Kingdom saw the third case confirmed, with the patient having visited Singapore.^[58]
• A patient in San Jose, California became the first COVID-19 death in the United States discovered by April 2020. She died at home without any known recent foreign travel, after being unusually sick from flu in late January, then recovering, remote working, and suddenly dying on 6 February. A 7 February autopsy^[59] was completed in April (after virus tests on tissue samples) and attributed the death to Transmural Myocardial Ischemia (Infarction) with a Minor Component of Myocarditis due to COVID-19 Infection. Her case indicates that community transmission was happening undetected in the US, most likely since December.^{[60][61][62][63][64]}
• Vietnam confirmed two more cases, bringing the total to 12.^[65]

7 February

WHO Situation Report 18:^[66]

• China
  • Guangdong confirmed over 1,000 cases in total, the second such province outside Hubei, and recorded its first death.^[67]
  • Wuhan reported 67 more deaths, bringing the total number of people killed by the virus there to 545; other cities in Hubei reported 14 deaths in total, their net figure now reaching 154.^[68]
• Another 41 tested positive for the coronavirus on Diamond Princess, bringing the total number of cases in Japan to 86.^[69]
• Germany announced its 14th case.^[70]
• Hong Kong confirmed two more cases, bringing the total number to 26.^[71]
• Malaysia confirmed one more case from a tourist entering from Singapore, bringing the total to 15.^[72][73]
• Singapore confirmed three more cases, bringing the total to 33. Most of these cases were initially of unknown origin, causing the Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) level to increase to Orange.^[74][75][76]
• South Korea confirmed one more case, bringing the total to 24.^[77]
• Vietnam confirmed one additional case, bringing the total to 13.^[78]

8 February

WHO Situation Report 19:^[79]

• China:
  • Wuhan confirmed 63 more deaths, bringing its total to 608;^[80] this now includes a Japanese citizen and a US citizen dying on this day.^[81][82]
  • Henan became the third province besides Hubei to report over 1,000 cases.^[83] Nationally, the number of cases outside Hubei exceeded 10,000.^[84]
  • Aerosol was confirmed as a medium of transmission for the first time.^[85][86]
  • Beijing reported a first type of case involving a patient, who tested positive after three negative test results, and Qingtian, Zhejiang reported a case where the patient tested positive only after being tested for the fifth time.^[87]
• France confirmed five cases involving British nationals, bringing the total number to 11.^[88]
• In Japan, three more cases tested positive on Diamond Princess, bringing the total number of cases in Japan to 89.^[89]
• Malaysia confirmed one more case, bringing the total to 16.^[90]
• Singapore confirmed seven more cases, bringing the total to 40.^[91]
• Thailand confirmed seven additional cases, bringing the total to 32.^[92]
• The United Arab Emirates confirmed two more cases, bringing the total to seven.^[93]

9 February

WHO Situation Report 20:^[94]

• China (Mainland) now confirmed a total of 40,213 cases, exceeding 40,000, of which 29,631 were in Hubei.^[95] The coronavirus death toll in China rose to 811, surpassing the toll from the SARS epidemic from 2002 to 2003.^[96]
• Hong Kong confirmed 10 more cases, with nine from the same family, bringing the total number to 36.^[97]
• Malaysia confirmed one more case, bringing the total number to 17.^[98]
• Singapore confirmed three more cases, bringing the total number to 43.^[99][100]
• South Korea reported three new cases of the virus, bringing the country's total to 27.^[101]
• Spain confirmed the second case in the country in Palma de Mallorca.^[102]
• Taiwan confirmed its 18th case.^[103]
• The United Kingdom confirmed its fourth case.^[104]
• Vietnam confirmed its 14th case, a 55-year-old woman in Vĩnh Phúc.^[105]
• Six more cases were confirmed aboard Diamond Princess, bringing the total number of cases on the ship to 70, with Japan having 96 cases.^[106][107]

10 February

WHO Situation Report 21:^[108]

• Hong Kong confirmed six more cases, bringing the total number to 42.^[109]
• Japan confirmed 65 more cases on Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 135.^[110][111]
• Malaysia confirmed one more case involving a citizen, bringing the total to 18.^[112]
• Singapore confirmed another two cases, including a Certis officer who served Quarantine Orders, bringing the total to 45.^[113]
• The United Arab Emirates confirmed its eighth case, an Indian national.^[114]
• The United Kingdom saw four additional cases were confirmed, bringing the total to eight. The transmission in these cases is believed to have occurred in France.^[115][116]
• The United States of America confirmed its 13th case in San Diego, a patient who had been evacuated from Wuhan.^[117]

11 February

WHO Situation Report 22:^[118]

• Germany confirmed two more cases, bringing the total number to 16.^[119]
• Hong Kong confirmed seven more cases, bringing the total to 49.^[120]
• Singapore confirmed another two cases, bringing the total to 47.^[121]
• South Korea confirmed one more case, a 30-year-old Chinese woman, bringing the total number to 28.^[122]
• Thailand confirmed one new case, bringing the total in the country to 33.^[123]
• Vietnam confirmed its 15th case, a three-month-old baby infected by her grandmother.^[124]
• The WHO gives the disease the new name COVID-19.^[125][126] Additionally, the virus itself is named SARS-CoV-2.

12 February

WHO Situation Report 23:^[127]

• Hong Kong confirmed one more case, bringing the total number to 50.^[128][129]
• Japan confirmed 39 more cases on Diamond Princess, including one quarantine officer, bringing the total to 174.^[130] Another case was reported in Japan itself, bringing the total number to 29.^[131][132]
• Singapore confirmed three more cases, bringing the total to 50.^[133] Earlier, 300 employees of DBS Bank were asked to evacuate from the office at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3 due to a confirmed case there.^[134]
• In the United Kingdom, the first case in London was confirmed, bringing the country's total to nine.^[135][136]
• The United States of America confirmed one more case, bringing the total number to 14.^[137]

13 February

WHO Situation Report 24:^[138]

• Japan confirmed four more cases, bringing the total to 33.^[139] At the same time, 44 new cases were confirmed on the Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 218.^[140] Later on, Japan confirmed its first death from the virus.^[141][142]
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