Coronavirus pandemic

The **Coronavirus pandemic**, also known as the **2019 N-CoV pandemic**, was a global pandemic of the **Coronavirus Disease 2019** (officially known as the **2019 Novel Coronavirus** at the start of the pandemic, or commonly known as just **Coronavirus**) caused by **Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus** (**SARS-CoV**). The novel virus was first emerged on 21st December 2019 at a Wuhan wet market in China. It later spreads across the world in early-2020 including the UK, the US, Australia, Europe, parts of Asia, and other countries when it was identified as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 10th February 2020, the World Health Organisation had declared Coronavirus as a "national health emergency". The following month, lockdowns had been imposed around the world, causing closures to cinemas; art galleries and museums as well as other premises, festivals such as Glastonbury and the London Film Festival were either postponed or cancelled, and asking people to "stay-at-home"; in order to try and contain the invisible killer until it's being relaxed several times. Meanwhile in America, the studios were affected by the Coronavirus pandemic with some cinema chains closing, precipitating box office flops (like Disney's *Onward* or Sony's *Bloodshot*). Several films were delayed (Universal and MGM's *No Time to Die* or Paramount's *A Quiet Place Part II* and even Disney's *Black Widow* and *Mulan*) and others were launched to the digital market (like Universal's *The Invisible Man* and *Trolls World Tour* and Warner Bros.' *Birds of Prey*, *Scoob* and *Wonder Woman 1984*). In January 2021, Britain (while Boris Johnson and his Government imposes a third and final lockdown) becomes the first world country to receive a Coronavirus vaccine; which arrived first in Southern England, followed by Northern England; Scotland; Wales; and Northern Ireland. The **NHS Coronavirus Vaccination Centre** was created at the same time to help people get vaccinated where possible. To alter history, the first person to have a vaccine was the last generation of William Shakespeare - the great-great-great grandson of an Elizabethan playwright (who died in 1616). He later died months later aged 93. In 2022, the UK was the first country in the world to launch its strategy for everyone who is currently living with Coronavirus while other countries (except the United States; which later followed suit to launch a similar strategy as in the UK) struggled to contain it and the **Coronavirus Memorial Wall** was in place in London to remember people from across the UK who died of Coronavirus during the 2020-2021 pandemic. Meanwhile, the US have more than 500,000 deaths of Coronavirus than anywhere in the world. Today, the United Nations (including the UK and the US) are continuing the search to find out where did the origins of Coronavirus coming from? While most of the people agree that it came from the infected bats, others dismissed speculations about the virus' origin came from the laboratory centre in China. Meanwhile in Southern England, the inquiry into the handling of Coronavirus currently underway with Boris Johnson admit his misleading to the MPs at the start of the pandemic. On 5th May 2023, The World Health Organisation has declared the end of a global emergency for Coronavirus (2019 N-CoV) after three years being in place by saying that it is officially over for the first time since the 1918-1919 swine flu pandemic in the 20th Century.

## See also

SARS
NHS Coronavirus Vaccination Centre
Coronavirus Recovery Group
Coronavirus Bereaved Families for Justice