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By 13 May there had been
More than 90% of those dying had underlying illnesses or were over 60 years old.
The infection rate was higher in care homes than in the community.
There were large regional difference in the outbreak's severity.
The outbreak in London had the highest total number and the most infections.
England and Wales were the UK countries with the highest recorded death rate per head, and Northern Ireland had the lowest.
Government response before the pandemic
In February, the Heath Secretary, Matt Hancock, proposed the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020.
Hospitals set up drive-through screening (testing for the disease).
The Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, created a four-stage strategy to tackle the outbreak: contain, delay, research and mitigate (help, lessen).
Government response during the pandemic
On 11 March, the outbreak was declared a pandemic.
Four days later—following the outbreak in Italy, the government said everyone should avoid all "non-essential" travel and contact with others, avoid crowds, and work from home if possible.
Those with symptoms, and their household, were asked to self-isolate.
Pregnant women, the over 70s, and those with certain illnesses were asked to self-isolate for longer.
On 20 March 2020, the four governments shut all schools, restaurants, pubs, indoor entertainment venues and leisure centres, with some exceptions.
On 23 March, the UK government made a lockdown on the whole population, banning all "non-essential" travel and contact with people outside one's home and shutting almost all businesses, venues, facilities, amenities and places of worship.
People were told to keep apart in public.
Police were given the power to enforce the lockdown, and the Coronavirus Act 2020 gave the government emergency powers not used since the Second World War.
More lockdowns took place in October, November and December 2020.
Different places had different rules.
A national lockdown in England began on 5 January 2021.
Some schools stayed open to teach the children of essential workers, at-risk children, and children with special education needs.
However, adults who work for disabled students' rights told Parliament that British educators had unfairly sent special education students home without good reasons.
Covid vaccine administration
The disease was confirmed to have reached Canada on January 27, 2020, after a man who had returned to Toronto from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive. ,
there have been over 134,000 confirmed cases, 118,000 recoveries and 9,000 deaths in the country.
The Government of Canada says that around 11,000–22,000 deaths could happen over the course of the pandemic.
Confirmed cases have been reported in all of Canada's provinces and territories, with the exception of Nunavut.
An additional 13 cases involve citizens from the Grand Princess cruise ship.
Among the Canadians who contracted the virus was Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who tested positive for the virus on March 12 after which the family went into self-isolation.
By March 28, she had recovered.
Until March, all cases were linked to recent travel to a country with a large number of cases.
The first case of community transmission in Canada was confirmed in British Columbia on March 5,  and Toronto's chief health officer announced on March 16 that there is "some evidence of community transmission" (that the disease was spreading within the country).
In mid March, as cases of community transmission were confirmed, all of Canada's provinces and territories declared states of emergency.
Provinces and territories made school and daycare shutdown, ended on gatherings, closed non-essential businesses, restrictions on entry, and mandatory self-isolation for travellers.
21st century in Canada
Ryan Russell is an British actor, best known for being a presenter on CBeebies from 2017 to 2019 and for playing the role of Michael Bailey in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2019.
He studied Performance at the University of Salford and has appeared onstage in It's a Wonderful Life and Cassio and in commercials for Superdrug and WeBuyAnyCar.com.
Russell was also one of the kids on World of Colours.
The COVID-19 pandemic was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020.
That was when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus.
Ecuador was described in April as the growing "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America.
The city of Guayaquil has had so many deaths that bodies are being left in the street.
Ecuador gave out cardboard coffins because the country had diffculty removing all the dead bodies.
The government was planning to build emergency cemeteries to dispose of the bodies which are left in the streets.
In April 2021, newly elected President Guillermo Lasso said that his main priorities after being inaugurated would be to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.
Lassos said he aim for bilateral talks with Russia, China, the United States, the European Union and Chile to try to acquire vaccines.
The number of deaths was believed to be higher than the official figure because not enough testing was being done.
A New York Times analysis found 7,600 more deaths had happened from 1 March to 15 April as the mortality rate spiked to three times as much as usual.
That showed that the official death toll was lower than the actual death toll.
Current number of cases by provinces
Early prevention measures happened within the first cases.
They included restricting the border with China and large testing.
The infection spread from Italy on 2 March, leading to more measures such as cancelling events, closing schools, theatres and museums, shutting the border, and declaring a non-working period which lasted up to 11 May, having been extended twice.
By the end of March, lockdowns were added in the large majority of federal subjects, including Moscow.
By 17 April, cases were confirmed in all federal areas.
On 27 April, the number of confirmed cases passed those in China and on 30 April, it passed 100,000.
As of 14 May, Russia has 252,245 confirmed cases, 53,530 recoveries, 2,305 deaths, and over 6.1 million tests performed, ranking second in number of confirmed cases.
The city of Moscow is currently the most affected, having the majority of confirmed cases.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020.
However, the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) reported two cases of COVID-19 in mid-January 2020 in the states of Nayarit and Tabasco, one case per state.
Early action
On January 22, 2020, the Secretariat of Health issued a statement saying that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was not a threat to Mexico.
441 cases had been confirmed in China, Thailand, South Korea, and the United States.
A travel warning was issued on January 9.
First cases
On February 28, Mexico confirmed its first three cases.
A 35-year-old man and a 59-year-old man in Mexico City and a 41-year-old man in the northern state of Sinaloa tested positive and were held in isolation at a hospital and a hotel.
They had travelled to Bergamo and stayed in Italy for a week in mid-February.
López Obrador's reaction
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not take the pandemic seriously such as the impact of coronavirus.
He said "Pandemics ... won't do anything to us," and criticized the press and the opposition for its reportage.
A poll showed that 63% of Mexicans feared contracting COVID-19 and 25.5% feared dying from it.
28% said they were not willing to stay in their homes.
38.6% believed President López Obrador was handling the situation well, and 37% disapproved.
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On 17 March, Brazil's first coronavirus-related death was confirmed.
At this time, there were 291 confirmed cases in the country.
Three days later, State health departments reported almost a thousand confirmed cases across 23 of 26 states and also in the Federal District.
A month after the first confirmed case on February 26, the Ministry of Health reported that Brazil had 2,915 confirmed cases and 77 deaths.
On 30 April, Brazil overtook China in number of confirmed cases, passing 87,000.
Government responses
The pandemic has caused a large difference of responses from federal, state and local governments.
On 27 March Brazil announced a temporary ban on foreign air travelers, and most state governors have added quarantines to prevent the spread of the virus.
Criticism of Bolsonaro's response
Despite the global impact of the virus and guidelines from the World Health Organization, President Jair Bolsonaro says that the risk caused by coronavirus has been exaggerated.
State governors have disagreed, causing lockdowns measures in their own states.
On 13 March, President Jair Bolsonaro tested negative for COVID-19.
The same day, the Ministry of Health issued a warning recommending Brazilians and foreigners arriving in Brazil to stay in isolation for at least 7 days.
2020s in Brazil
The 2020 Pacific typhoon season is an ongoing event of which when typhoons form in the Pacific Ocean.
The season lasts all year, although most tropical cyclones form between May and October.
The season's first tropical cyclone formed on May 10, making it the sixth-latest start in the basin on record.
The first few months of 2020 were extremely quiet, with no tropical systems developing between the months of January and April.
On May 10, the season saw its first tropical system with the development of Ambo, making it the sixth-latest starting season on record, as well as the latest since 2016.
Two days later, the system strengthened to the first officially named tropical storm of the season, Vongfong.
Vongfong then hit the Philippines at peak intensity, and weakened soon after landfall.
After Vongfong, a month of inactivity ensued, and on June 10, a new tropical depression formed off the coast of Samar, and was named Butchoy by the PAGASA a day later.
Butchoy made landfall in the Philippines as the JTWC issued a tropical cyclone formation alert for it.
It then got upgraded to a tropical storm, and impacted Hong Kong, Macau and parts of China upon landfall.
List of storms
Typhoon Vongfong
A low-pressure area near Micronesia slowly organized over the course of a few hours, and developed into a tropical depression soon after.
It became the first tropical cyclone to form in the Western Pacific in 2020, and PAGASA named it "Ambo".
Favourable sea temperatures, low wind shear and excellent vertical outflow made the system intensify into a tropical storm, then the JMA named it "Vongfong".
Less than a day later, when convection started to rapidly organize around the storm's center, and a well-defined rain band at the northwest side of the storm, JTWC upgraded it to a typhoon.
Vongfong made landfall on Samar Island at around 12 PM Philippines Time.
It began to weaken because of many landfalls over the Philippines, and emerged into the South China Sea on May 17.
It turned north and dissipated due to high wind shear the next day, just south of Taiwan.
The first recorded cases of COVID-19 in Portugal were reported on 2 March.
A week later, the Portuguese government declared the highest level of alert because of COVID-19 and said it would be maintained until 9 April.
On 18 March, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, declared State of Emergency for the following fifteen days, with the possibility of it being extended.
It was the first act of emergency since the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
The act was extended on 2 April.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed by Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize to have spread to South Africa on 5 March 2020.
The first known case was a South African returning from Italy.
The parliament of South Africa suspended all activities on 18 March.
Both the African National Congress and Democratic Alliance postponed their respective elective congresses.
On 23 March, a national lockdown was announced, starting on 26 March 2020.
On 9 April, Ramaphosa announced that it would be extended until the end of April.
On 23 April, Ramaphosa announced that the lockdown restrictions would slowly be phased out.
Level 4 started on 1 May.
On 1 June, the country entered level 3.
Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, extended the state of disaster on 3 June.
It ended on 4 July.
, the median age of people with laboratory-confirmed cases was 38 years, and  the median age of patients who died was 64.
, there were  confirmed cases and  confirmed deaths, as well as  recoveries.
21st century in South Africa
A stay-at-home order (North America) or a movement control order (Southeast Asia) is an order from a government to lower/end movements of a population as a mass quarantine move for stopping an epidemic, or pandemic.
This is done by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or to work in essential businesses.
In many cases, outdoor activities are allowed.
Nonessential businesses are either closed or made to working from home.
Self-isolation
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (), spread to the Philippines on January 30, 2020.
The first case of the disease was confirmed in Metro Manila.
The first case was a 38-year-old Chinese woman who was quarantined at a hospital in Manila.
The second case was confirmed on February 2, that of a 44-year-old Chinese man who died a day earlier, which was also the first confirmed death from the disease outside mainland China.
The first case of someone without travel history abroad was confirmed on March 5, a 62-year-old male who was a Muslim prayer hall in San Juan, Metro Manila.
The man's wife was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 on March 7, which was also the first local transmission to be confirmed.
As of September 13, 2020, there have been 261,216 confirmed cases of the disease in the country.
Out of these cases, 207,568 recoveries and 4,371 deaths were recorded.
Royal Flash is a 1975 British adventure comedy movie directed by Richard Lester and is based on the 1970 novel of the same name by George MacDonald Fraser.
It stars Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Florinda Bolkan, Joss Ackland, Alastair Sim, Britt Ekland, Bob Hoskins, Bob Peck, Frank Grimes, Christopher Cazenove and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
The first case of COVID-19 in New Zealand during the 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic was reported on 28 February 2020. ,
the country has had a total of 3,464 cases, of which 551 are currently active, and 26 people have died from the virus.
All borders and entry ports of New Zealand were closed to all non-residents at 11:59 pm on 19 March 2020, with returning citizens and residents being required to self-isolate.
Since 10 April, all New Zealanders returning from overseas must go into two weeks of quarantine.
At higher alert levels, these levels enforce higher restrictions on what services can operate and how the available services will operate.
On 1 April, 61 new cases (47 confirmed and 14 probable) were reported, bringing the total to 708 (647 confirmed and 61 probable).
That same day, it was reported that the Chatham Islands, which are part of New Zealand, were facing a food shortage due to panic buying.
On 1 May, 3 new cases (all confirmed) were reported, bringing the total to 1,479 (1,132 confirmed and 347 probable), and 11 new recoveries were reported, bringing the total 1,252.
Six people were in hospital.
The COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Japan in January 2020.
Cases have been recorded in each of the 47 prefectures except for Iwate.
The country has seen over 10,000 confirmed cases.
The Japanese government confirmed its first outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 () in the country on 16 January 2020 in a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture who had returned from Wuhan, China.
A second outbreak was caused by travelers and returnees from Europe and the United States between 11 March and 23 March.
According to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the majority of viruses spreading in Japan derive from the European type while those of the Wuhan type have been disappearing since March.
The Japanese government has created many measures to stop and slow down the outbreak.
On 30 January, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe created a national task force to take charge of the government's response to the pandemic.
On 7 April, Abe announced a one-month state of emergency for Tokyo and the prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Hyogo, and Fukuoka.
On 16 April, the declaration was extended to the rest of the country.
2020 Olympics
Criticism of the government response
Medical experts and the media have criticized the Japanese government for under-testing for COVID-19.
Medical experts said that the government have instead relied on the country's pneumonia surveillance to identify and treat severely-affected patients.
2020s in Japan
With the fears of further contamination, mass gatherings in the affected cities were cancelled and a few hundred soldiers in Daegu are in isolation.
On 4 February 2020, in order to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, South Korea began denying entry to foreigners traveling from Hubei Province.
COVID-19 South Korean page
The COVID-19 pandemic began in Norway on 26 February 2020, with cases increasing during the month of March.
Physical distancing actions were introduced on 12 March.
The first death caused by COVID-19 was documented on 26 February 2020.
Most confirmed cases that were traced to outside Norway were Norwegian tourists returning from Austria and Italy.
If I Had a Million is a 1932 American comedy drama movie directed by seven directors Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Gene Raymond.
1930s comedy-drama movies
Movies directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Movies directed by Norman Z. McLeod
the country had 2,383 confirmed cases, 1,717 recoveries, and 35 deaths.
More than 1.7 million tests have been performed.
Hai Duong, as of February 2021 is the most-affected province with 647 confirmed cases.
On 23 January, Vietnam confirmed the first two cases of COVID-19, a Chinese man (#1) travelling from Wuhan to Hanoi to visit his son who lived in Vietnam, and his son (#2), who was believed to have contracted the disease from his father.
They were hospitalized in Ho Chi Minh City.
On 29 January, the son fully recovered and was discharged.
His father was discharged on 12 February.
From 17 to 23 April, no new cases were confirmed.
However, there were reports of cases who tested positive again after being discharged.
On 24 April, two more cases were confirmed: both were Vietnamese students who came back from Japan and quarantined on arrival.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Denmark on 27 February 2020.
As of 13 May 2020, there have been 10,667 confirmed cases.
Among these, 533 patients have died, 8,663 have recovered, and 164 are in hospital, including 37 in intensive care.
Lockdown effect
Denmark was among the first European countries to introduce lockdown measures, starting on 13 March.
Following a period of increase in hospitalizations, the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 has been falling since late March, with the number of cases in need of intensive care and ventilator being well below available resources.
Starting on 15 April, a very slow and gradual reopening has been initiated, but if there are indications that the number of infections increases too fast, it will be reversed.
The pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Greenland in March 2020.
There have been 11 confirmed cases, but none in need of hospitalization.
The last infected person had recovered on 8 April and there are no known active cases in Greenland.
Economic response
In an attempt to reduce the economic impact of the pandemic, the government has created a large economic packages with the support of all parties in Parliament.
Nevertheless, it is expected that the decrease in GDP will be between 3 and 10% in 2020.
By late-March and April, COVID-19 areas were detected at multiple areas for foreign workers, which soon caused a large number of new cases in the country.
Singapore currently has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, having overtaken Indonesia on 19 April.
In response to the growing number of new cases, Singapore announced on 3 April a strict number of measures called a "circuit breaker" from 7 April to 4 May.
The circuit breaker was extended to 1 June on 21 April.
National authorities began reporting on suspected cases on 4 January, however the first confirmed case of infection was reported on 23 January.
The person was a tourist from Wuhan.
Until 30 January, there were a total to 13 confirmed cases, all of whom were visitors to Singapore from China.
, the total number of cases registered is 1,802, of which 1,780 have recovered and 10 have died.
With a total population of 366,130 (as of 31 March 2020).
The infection rate is 1 case per 203 people, one of the highest in the world.
This is because more tests having been carried out in Iceland than any other country.
On 8 April, as the cases surged over 1,600 and more recoveries than new infections were recorded for the second day in a row.
The total number of patients hospitalized in the country since the outbreak is 112.
Its first case in Serbia was reported on 6 March 2020.
The case was a 43-year-old man from Bačka Topola who had travelled to Budapest.
On 15 March 15, a state of emergency was declared.
Many argue the declaration was against the constitution, since there was no debate among the MPs in the Serbian Parliament.
All schools, Kindergarten and universities are closed.
The following day, a curfew from (20:00h) to (05:00) has been created across the whole country.
In addition, people of the age of 65 and above have been forbidden to leave the house.
On 20 March, cafe bars, shopping malls, public transportation have all been closed.
Food delivery, however is allowed.
Bolliger & Mabillard, commonly known as B&M, is a roller coaster company based in Monthey, Switzerland.
After installing its first coaster in 1990, they have now installed more than 100 rollercoasters across the globe.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Jamaica in 10 March 2020.
It happened at the same time as the ongoing dengue fever epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Unlike SARS outbreak of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19  has been much lower, but the transmission has been greater, with a significant total death toll.
The government announced a travel ban between China and Jamaica.
All people entering Jamaica from China will be quarantine for at least 14 days, and anyone who was allowed to land and shows symptoms of the virus will be put in immediate isolation.
The COVID-19 pandemic first appeared in Greece on 26 February 2020. ,
there have been 2,760 confirmed cases and 155 deaths.
The first COVID-19 case, a 38-year-old woman from Thessaloniki who had recently visited Νorthern Italy, was confirmed.
Later cases in late February and early March related to people who had traveled to Italy, Israel and Egypt.
The first death from COVID-19 in Greece was a 66-year-old man, who died on 12 March.
February 2020: 7 confirmed cases.
March 2020: 1307 new cases, taking the total number to 1314 cases, including 49 deaths.
April 2020: 1284 new cases and 91 deaths, taking the total number to 2591 cases, including 140 deaths.
May 2020: 326 new cases and 35 deaths, taking the total number to 2917 cases, including 175 deaths.
June 2020: 492 new cases and 17 deaths, taking the total number to 3409 cases, including 192 deaths.
July 2020: 1068 new cases and 14 deaths, taking the total number to 4477 cases, including 206 deaths.
August 2020: 5840 new cases and 60 deaths, taking the total number to 10,317 cases, including 266 deaths.
September 2020: 8158 new cases and 125 deaths, taking the total number to 18,475 cases, including 391 deaths.
October 2020: 20,777 new cases and 235 deaths, taking the total number to 39,252 cases, including 626 deaths.
November 2020: 66,019 new cases and 1780 deaths, taking the total number to 105,271 cases, including 2406 deaths.
December 2020: 33,579 new cases and 2432 deaths, taking the total number to 138,850 cases, including 4838 deaths.
January 2021: 18,107 new cases and 958 deaths, taking the total number to 156,957 cases, including 5796 deaths.
February 2021: 34,143 new cases and 708 deaths, taking the total number to 191,100 cases, including 6504 deaths.
March 2021: 72,589 new cases and 1589 deaths, taking the total number to 263,689, including 8093 deaths.
April 2021: 81,344 new cases and 2288 deaths, taking the total number to 345,033, including 10,381 deaths.
May 2021: 57,273 new cases and 1714 deaths, taking the total number to 402,306, including 12,095 deaths.
June 2021: 20,150 new cases and 611 deaths, taking the total number to 422,456, including 12,706 deaths.
July 2021: 70,848 new cases and 259 deaths, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 493,304, including 12,965 deaths.
August 2021: 94,960 new cases and 726 deaths, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 587,964, including 13,691 deaths.
September 2021: 67,803 new cases and 1,137 deaths, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 655,767, including 14,828 deaths.
October 2021: 86,403 new cases and 1,110 deaths, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 742,170, including 15,938 deaths.
Following the first three cases in Greece, on 27 February all carnival events in the country were cancelled.
Later, the closure of schools and the suspension of cultural events in the affected areas (particularly Ilia, Achaea and Zakynthos) were announced.
On 16 March, all retail shops were also closed, two villages in Kozani were quarantined, and all services in all churches were suspended.
On 18 and 19 March, the government announced a series of measures of more than 10 billion euros to support the economy, businesses and employees.
2020s in Greece
The first reported local transmission was confirmed on 31 January.
The number of cases remained low throughout February, with forty confirmed by the end of the month.
Cases had a sharp increase in mid-March.
Confirmed cases rose to over a hundred per day over the following week, and public areas and businesses were ordered to close in Bangkok and several other provinces.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha declared a state of emergency, beginning on 26 March.
A curfew has been announced, beginning on 3 April 2020.
The Thai government's response to the outbreak was based on surveillance and tracing.
Temperature and symptom screening for coronavirus testing was added at international airports, as well as at hospitals for patients with travel or contact history.
The government has been criticized for its slow response to the crisis.
In early February, in response to concerns over hoarding and price increase of face masks, the government issued price controls.
The move failed to prevent shortages among hospitals, and became a scandal.
Criticism was also for the slow response to end foreign travel.
Unlike SARS of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19  has been much lower, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.
On 31 December 2019, the Health Commission of Wuhan, Hubei, China, informed the WHO about a large number of acute pneumonia cases with unknown origin in its province.
On 9 January 2020, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) reported the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 as the cause.
On 27 January, following the developments of COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China, Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs advised citizens to avoid unnecessary travel to Hubei province.
The following day, Finnair announced it would be ending its five weekly routes to Nanjing and Beijing Daxing until the end of March.
On 16 March, the president declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19.
272 laboratory-confirmed cases caused by COVID-19 had been diagnosed in Finland by 16 March 2020 at 2 pm.
On 12 March 2020, the government shut all schools, colleges, childcare facilities and cultural institutions.
St Patrick's Day festivals and events were cancelled.
Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar addressed the nation that night.
On 24 March, almost all businesses, venues, facilities and amenities were shut; but gatherings of up to four were allowed.
Three days later, the government banned all "non-essential" travel.
By 25 June 2021, the Department of Health had confirmed 270,477 cases and 4,989 deaths; a rate of 54,184  cases per million and 999  deaths per million population.
Flattening the curve is a public health strategy to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The curve being flattened is the epidemic curve, a representation of the number of infected people needing health care over time.
The majority of early cases were caused by a wedding with 500 people in Montevideo.
It was attended by a Uruguayan returning from Spain who later tested positive.
On 16 March, the government issued an order to close all border crossings except Carrasco International Airport.
The border with Argentina was closed effective 17 March at midnight.
President Luis Lacalle Pou said that the idea of closing the border with Brazil was "a little more complex", because it is a dry land border, and many people living near the border.
Lacalle Pou advised people over 65 to stay at home.
The government recommended working from home and not traveling.
To free up hospital beds, surgeries were rescheduled.
On 10 March 2020, the Paraguayan government suspended classes and all activities that involve groups of people, as well as public and private events, for 15 days.
Other measures include partial closure of borders, restricting entry of foreigners, and curfews.
On 20 March 2020, the first death and the first case of community transmission were confirmed.
The government declared a total quarantine until 3 May, with free movement restricted completely.
Public movement is restricted to buying food, medicine and other essential items.
Reopening
On 12 March, the government declared a state of emergency, for the first time in the country's modern history for the area of the entire country.
On 16 March, the country closed its borders and issued a nationwide curfew.
A general closure of services and retail sale was in place from 14 March until 11 May, however all shops could conduct distance sales with delivery from 24 March onwards.
Government didn't order closure of manufacturing plants, but many did so voluntarily during second half of March with gradual reopening from 14 April.
As at the beginning the pandemic, Hungarians living in China who wanted to move back to Europe were transported home through France.
The affected seven persons were under quarantine for two weeks.
As they remained healthy during the next two weeks, they were released on 16 February.
The Chinese pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Afghanistan in Herat, was confirmed on 24 February 2020.
As of 14 May 2020, there have been 5,639 positive cases, with 691 recoveries and 136 deaths across all 34 provinces in the country.
Kabul Province has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Afghanistan at 1556, followed by Herat with 935 cases, and then Kandahar with 613 cases.
People returning from Iran
As many as over 1000 people a day crossed the border during the month.
Between March and April 2020, the number of cases increased in Herat Province to over 200 cases.
Arthur Holmes (18901965) was an English geologist.
He made two important contributions: the use of radioactive isotopes for dating minerals, and the suggestion that convection currents in the mantle play an important role in continental drift.
Holmes showed us that thermal convection currents were strong enough to move large land masses, which contributed to Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift or theory of Plate tectonics.
Harry H. Hess (19061969) also supported this view.
Holmes was a pioneer of geochronology, and performed the first accurate uranium-lead radiometric dating while an undergraduate in London.
This gave a date of of 370 mya to a Devonian rock from Norway.
This result was published in 1911, after his graduation in 1910.
Holmes worked on the problem of the age of the Earth all his life.
He reached an approximately correct estimate by the 1940s of 4,500±100 mya.
The first case in Pakistan happened when a student in Karachi tested positive after returning from Iran.
By 18 March, cases had been registered in all four provinces, the two autonomous territories, and the federal territory of Islamabad.
there have been  over 34,300 confirmed cases with 8,812 recoveries and 737 deaths in the country.
Punjab has recorded the most cases at over  13,200, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reported the most deaths in the country, a total of 245.
The country has been put under a nation-wide lockdown until 9 May, which was initiated on 1 April and later extended twice.
On 7 May, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced to slowly end lockdown phase from 9 May 2020.
According to a report by the federal government, Pakistan could have expected 50,000 cases of the disease by 25 April.
However, the number by then remained under 13,000, less than half of what was expected.
As part of an ongoing worldwide pandemic,  the first two patients with COVID-19 in Venezuela were confirmed on 13 March 2020; the first death was reported on 26 March.
It was on the first day of the quarantine across six states, 16 March, that Argentina's ambassador in Venezuela, Eduardo Porretti, tested positive for the virus, and Nicolás Maduro announced that sixteen new cases were confirmed, bringing the total to 33.
Maduro extended the quarantine to the entire country.
, Panama reported 2528 cases, 63 deaths and 16 recoveries.
One of the dead was a 64-year-old male, who also suffered from diabetes and pneumonia.
Of those infected, 83 were sent to a hospital.
The infected individuals belong to the 29-59 age group and had each recently traveled abroad.
The government declared a state of emergency on 13 March 2020.
The move frees US$50 million for a period of 180 days to purchase goods and services to combat COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Bolivia when its first two cases were confirmed on 10 March 2020.
They were in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz.
On 12 March, Bolivia ended all public school sessions until 31 March, as well as all commercial flights to and from Europe for a long time.
They also prohibited large-scale public gatherings of more than 1,000 people.
Following the announcement of the first confirmed case, incidents were reported among the local population, including panic buying of surgical masks and hand sanitizer and blocking access to hospitals.
During the pandemic, Iraq reported its first confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections on 22 February 2020 in Najaf.
By April, the number of confirmed cases had pass the hundred mark in Baghdad, Basra, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Najaf.
By April 8, as many as 150 members of the Saudi royal family had tested positive.
The king's nephew, Faisal bin Bandar Al Saud, has been put in the intensive care unit over coronavirus problems.
On 12 March, four more cases were confirmed, two in Bogotá and two in Neiva.
Authorities declared a health emergency, suspending all public events involving more than 500 people, as well as implementing measures intended to keep cruise ships from docking in any national port.
On 7 March, the Ministry of Health confirmed the country's first death, a 64-year-old man who had traveled to Paris, France, who also had other health conditions.
The case was only confirmed as positive after the patient's death.
This also marked the first documented death from the virus in the country.
On 19 March, Argentina entered a nation-wide lockdown.
The Argentine government announced the extension of the lockdown, originally expected to end on March 31, then mid April, and later until 26 April.
On 25 April, President Alberto Fernández announced that the lockdown would be extended in major cities until 10 May.
The lockdown was lifted up throughout all the country since 10 May, excepting the Greater Buenos Aires, as the lockdown is expected to continue in that urban area at least until 24 May.
On 11 March, the first three cases in Cuba were confirmed.
The patients were Italian tourists.
They were kept in isolation at the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana.
The government told citizens to make their own face masks.
People were told to carry several cloth face masks with them, depending on how many hours they plan to spend in public areas.
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On 12 March, Trinidad and Tobago recorded its first case of COVID-19.
It was a 52-year-old man who had recently been to Switzerland.
He was self-isolated before he began showing symptoms of COVID-19.
On 13 March, a second case of COVID-19 was recorded by Trinidad and Tobago.
Two more cases were confirmed on the night of 15 March, bringing the total to 4 cases.
On 26 March, the second reported COVID-19 death was an eighty-year-old male with pre-existing medical conditions.
He was among the rescued cruise ship passengers quarantined at Camp Balandra.
On 16 March, Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced that the country will close its borders to everyone except Trinidad and Tobago nationals and health workers for the next 14 days.
Additionally, bars were to be closed and the school closures extended until 20 April.
The V.Flash (known as V.Smile Pro in Europe; stylized as V.FLASH HOME EDUTAINMENT SYSTEM) is a seventh-generation educational home video game console.
It is a spinoff of the V.Smile series of video game consoles and was manufactured and released by VTech.
Unlike the V.Smile, the game console uses 3D graphics and is designed for kids aged 5+.
Not many games were made for the console because it was not very successful.
All games came out in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Germany, except for of Bratz Fashion Pixiez: The Secret Necklace, which did not come out in the United Kingdom and Germany, Multisports, which was exclusive to Germany, and Scooby-Doo!:
Ancient Adventure, which did not come out in Germany.
Although the name is in English, Multisports was exclusive to Europe and no English version exists.
Unlike most other consoles that use CD-ROMs, this system's CD-ROMs are inside a plastic case to protect them from damage from touching, similar to 3.5" floppy disks or UMDs.
The discs use the ISO 9660 file system, without any copy protection other than a simple sensor in the case jacket, making it possible to make a disc image from the disc.
However, there are no known cases of piracy involving the V.Flash.
Because of this, the V.Flash can also play audio CDs and user-recorded CD-Rs using the disc adapter that comes with the console.
Other hardware
The console's CPU is an ARM9 CPU from LSI Logic.
Files are stored in 3 main formats: .mjp, .ptx, and .snd.
.snd files are actually PCM WAV files.
ARM Processor
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there is a COVID-19 outbreak in Chile.
The country passed a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.
On 13 March, President Sebastián Piñera announced a ban on public events with more than 500 people, as the government tries to control the spread of coronavirus.
A week later, he announced a state emergency.
European help
Polish authorities did not take part in the 28 February 2020 European Union procedure for purchasing COVID-19 pandemic related medical equipment, in which 20 other member states participated.
Poland applied on 6 March for the 17 March tender for the purchase of gloves, goggles, face shields, surgical masks and protective clothing.
Lockdown-type control measures started on 10–12 March, closing schools and university classes and cancelling mass events, and were strengthened on 25 March.
It limited non-family gatherings to two people and religious gatherings to six and did not allow any non-essential travel.
Death counts initially only included deaths from lab-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Starting on 1 April 2020, deaths that were clinically diagnosed as COVID-19 were also considered as COVID-19 deaths. ,
people in Poland who died in quarantine from suspected COVID-19 were not tested for SARS-CoV-2 in their autopsy.
Testing and lockdown
, there were 269,307 people under quarantine for suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection and 42,783 SARS-CoV-2 tests had been made since the beginning of testing.
The lockdown restrictions were tightened starting on 31 March–1 April, making  individuals walking in streets to be separated by two metres, closing parks, boulevards, beaches, hairdressers and beauty salons.
On 25 July 2020, Leader Kim Jong-un held an emergency meeting after a suspected case of COVID-19 detected on North Korean town of Kaesong.
North Korea was one of the first countries to close borders due to COVID-19.
The government has created widespread travel restrictions, including closing the border to foreign tourists in late January 2020 and then suspending flights and banning travel in and out of the country.
History of North Korea
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel was confirmed on 21 February 2020, after a female citizen tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 after return from quarantine on the Diamond Princess ship in Japan.
On 19 March, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a national state of emergency.
Israelis were not allowed to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary.
As coronavirus diagnoses spiked in the city of Bnei Brak, reaching nearly 1,000 infected individuals at the beginning of April, the cabinet voted to declare the city a "restricted zone".
On 12 April, Haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem were placed under closure.
Diamond Princess is a British-registered  cruise ship owned and operated by Princess Cruises.
She began operation in March 2004 and mainly cruises in Asia during the northern hemisphere summer and Australia during the southern hemisphere summer.
Diamond Princess was built in Nagasaki, Japan, by Mitsubishi Industries.
There have been two known outbreaks of infectious disease on the ship – an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus in 2016 and an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in 2020.
At least 712 out of the 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and fourteen have died.
Since then, the country has closed all of its borders.
They suspended classes at all levels of education nationwide, ordered a nationwide curfew, and price freezes for basic food items and certain medical supplies and equipment.
This was done to stop prices from going up due to panic buying.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Egypt by 14 February 2020.
As of 1 May 2020, there have been 5,895 confirmed cases, 1,460 recoveries and 406 deaths.
All flights from China to Egypt have been banned since 26 January.
Egypt's health ministry announced the first case in the country at Cairo International Airport involving a Chinese national on 14 February.
On 8 March, a 60-year-old German citizen died in Hurghada, the first German fatality from the virus.
The next day, the World Health Organization said that there were 56 confirmed cases in Egypt.
On the same day, the Egyptian Minister of Tourism said that they discovered 3 additional cases with three people who work in a hotel.
Currently, 1,966 people in Belgian hospitals are suffering from COVID-19, including 407 in intensive care.
The actual number of victims maybe higher due to limited testing.
The COVID-19 pandemic was first recorded to have arrived in Syria on 14 March 2020.
The first case was confirmed on 22 March.
21st century in Syria
The first case when a woman returning from Wuhan tested positive.
On 26 February, following outbreaks in Italy and in Iran, multiple travel-related appeared in Sweden.
The disease began to spread in the country was on 9 March in the Stockholm region.
Since then, individuals in every län (county) have tested positive for COVID-19.
Testing and numbers
Sweden began testing for the virus in January, and by early May, about 148,000 tests had been performed. ,
there have been 27,909 confirmed cases, of which 1,768 received intensive care, and 3,460 deaths related to COVID-19 in Sweden.
21st century in Sweden
There are 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the Vatican's residents and employees; there are no associated deaths.
The 12 cases include 10 employees, 1 new hire, and 1 resident of Vatican City.
On 2 April, Libya confirmed its first COVID-19 death.
It was an 85-year-old Algerian woman.
The first case was a 70-year-old man in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino which borders Italy, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
The man had previously visited Milan.
Afterwards, multiple cases related to the Italy areas were discovered in multiple cantons, including Basel-City, Zürich, and Graubünden.
On 28 February, the national government, the Federal Council, banned all events with more than 1,000 participants.
On 16 March, schools and most shops were closed nationwide, and on 20 March, all gatherings of more than five people in public spaces were banned.
The government also put restrictions on border crossings.
They also announced economic support measures worth 40 billion Swiss francs.
21st century in Switzerland
On 13 March, the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and the victim later was a Japanese citizen.
The process of contact tracing is currently taking place.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Zimbabwe in March 2020.
As of 4 August, there are 4,221 confirmed cases, 81 deaths, and 1,238 recoveries.
Some of Zimbabwe's provinces, especially Manicaland, Masvingo and Mashonaland East, also struggled with a malaria outbreak at the same time.
Though malaria is treatable, the healthcare system faces drug shortages and increase strain with the spread of COVID-19.
On 21 March Zimbabwe reported its first COVID-19 case: a male resident of Victoria Falls who traveled back from the UK via South Africa on 15 March.
Two more cases in the country were confirmed on 21 March, both cases were in Harare.
On the 23 March, it was confirmed that noted Zimbabwean journalist Zororo Makamba was the first person in the country to die from the virus.
The first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Tilburg.
It was a 56-year-old Dutchman who had arrived in the Netherlands from Italy.
As of 14 May, there are 43,481 confirmed cases of infection and 5,590 confirmed COVID-19-deaths.
The first death occurred on 6 March, when an 86-year-old patient died in Rotterdam.
By mid-March, the country could test about 1,000 samples per day, which is less than other European countries.
This explains the large number of deaths in COVID cases there.
The first case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar was confirmed on 27 February 2020.
As of May 14, Qatar has the 2nd highest number of confirmed cases in the Arab World at 26,539 and the highest number of confirmed cases.
The total recoveries stand at 3,143, with 14 deaths.
On February 27, Qatar reported its first confirmed case of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The patient was a passenger who had come from Iran to Qatar in a Qatar Airways Flight.
All outdoor events with more than 500 people and all indoor events with more than 100 people were cancelled.
All children older than 14 years old were ordered to stay at home, starting 15 March, with the younger children starting 17 March.
This applied until 4 April.
Travel restrictions for people coming from Italy are created.
The government asked the general public to avoid social contact and announced even further restrictions to be made soon.
The first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen was announced on 10 April 2020 in Hadhramaut.
Organizations called the news a "devastating blow" and a "nightmare scenario" because of the country's lack of healthcare and human rights.
As of 13 May 2020, 889 confirmed cases have been reported in the country with 9 deaths.