page_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020
section_title: 1 February
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020 / Pandemic chronology / 1 February
caption_attribution_description: English: Coronavirus daily cases by region: Hubei Province, Mainland China, Rest of World, and Global Total العربية: حالات الإصابة بالفيروس التاجي اليومية حسب المنطقة: مقاطعة هوبي والبر الرئيسي للصين وبقية العالم وإجمالي عالمي Français&#160;: Cas quotidiens de coronavirus par région: province du Hubei, Chine continentale, reste du monde et total mondial
context_page_description: The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
context_section_description: WHO Situation Report 12: (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.
  Japan reported three more cases, increasing their total to 20.
  Singapore confirms two more cases, bringing the total to 18.
  South Korea confirmed the twelfth case of the coronavirus: a 49-year-old Chinese man who works as a Japanese tour guide in western Seoul.
  Spain confirmed its first case of the virus on La Gomera in the Canaries.
  The United States of America reported its eighth case, a man from Boston who recently returned to college after traveling to Wuhan.
  Vietnam confirmed its sixth case in Khánh Hòa Province, another domestic transmission in direct contact.
caption: Semi-log plot of daily incidence (epidemiology) of cases by region: Hubei Province; mainland China excluding Hubei; the rest of the world (ROW); and the world total.[3][4]
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