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  2. COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic began in Asia in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and has spread widely through the continent. As of 3 June 2024, at least one case of COVID-19 had been reported in every country in Asia except Turkmenistan. The Asian countries with the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases are India, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam, and Iran.

  3. COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case in Nepal was confirmed on 23 January 2020 when a 31-year-old student, who had returned to Kathmandu from Wuhan on 9 January, tested positive for the ...

  4. Coronavirus - Wikipedia

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    Human coronavirus HKU1, like the aforementioned viruses, also has its origins in rodents. Infection in humans Transmission and life-cycle of SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19. Coronaviruses vary significantly in risk factor. Some can kill more than 30% of those infected, such as MERS-CoV, and some are relatively harmless, such as the common cold.

  5. COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    COVID-19 Pandemic spread to Uttar Pradesh in March 2020. While the World Health Organization praised the UP government for its contact tracing efforts, [1] there were several other issues in its management of the pandemic, including under reportage of cases by the government, [2] vaccine shortages [3] and dismal conditions of COVID-19 hospitals.

  6. COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia - Wikipedia

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    The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Model-based simulations for Zambia suggest that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t exceeded 1.0 in November and December 2020.

  7. COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). The virus was confirmed to have reached Haiti in March 2020. The index case was in Port-au-Prince. As of 14 September 2021, there are 21,178 total confirmed cases ...

  8. World Health Organization's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) is a leading organisation involved in the global coordination for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic within the broader United Nations response to the pandemic . On 5 January 2020, the WHO notified the world about a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in China and subsequently began investigating the disease.

  9. 2021 hospital crisis in the U.S. from COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Mark Rosenberg, president American College of Emergency Physicians. In late August, Texas hospitals were suddenly overwhelmed with an average of more than 1,700 emergency patients each day. "All of a sudden, it's an exponential rise again in the middle of the summer," stated the general medicine physician at the University of Texas Medical Hospital in Dallas. Staffing was also more of a ...