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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China.
COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is still ongoing. It was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019.