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April 19, 2020, 8: 45 AM
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The very first reports on the around the world coronavirus pandemic were scattered and couple of, beginning with quick publications from a remote part of China in December. The news started to spread out sporadically throughout January as the infection turned up in other nations.
By February, issue increased as the very first coronavirus death outside China was reported.
This timeline, which includes reporting from Press Democrat news services, shows how the speed of the reports and responses have accelerated month by month, and now day by day.
Dec. 31
The federal government in Wuhan, China, says health authorities are dealing with lots of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause. Days later on, scientists in China determine a brand-new virus that had contaminated dozens of people in Asia. Authorities at the time state there is no proof that the infection is readily spread by humans. Health officials in China state they are keeping track of the illness.
Jan. 11
Chinese state media report the first known death from a disease triggered by the infection, which has contaminated dozens of individuals.
Jan. 20
Other nations, consisting of the United States, confirm cases.
Jan. 30
WHO states a “public health emergency situation of international issue” in action to countless new cases emerging in China. A foreign ministry spokeswoman in China states her government would continue to work with WHO and other countries to secure public health. The U.S. State Department cautions travelers to prevent China.
Jan. 31
The Trump administration limits travel from China.
Feb. 2
The first coronavirus death, a 44- year-old guy in the Philippines, is reported outside China. By this point, more than 360 individuals have died.
Feb. 7
A Chinese doctor who tried to raise alarm about the unique coronavirus dies.
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Feb. 24
A passenger who had actually been quarantined at Travis Flying force Base in Fairfield after contracting coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan is moved for quarantine to a concealed Sonoma County healthcare facility. Though the patient has tested favorable for the infection, they are showing no signs. That individual has actually given that left the location.
MARCH 2
A Sonoma County homeowner who recently returned from a cruise on the Grand Princess to Mexico is the very first local individual to test favorable for coronavirus, prompting county health officials to state a local public health emergency situation.
MARCH 3
A Placer County guy, 71, who fell ill with COVID-19 on the Grand Princess cruise dies, ending up being the very first death from the illness in California.
MARCH 4
Gov. Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency situation created to ramp up efforts to fight the coronavirus.
MARCH 6
The very first coronavirus test package for use by Sonoma County medical facilities shows up. The Sonoma County Farm Bureau cancels its annual Ag Days event at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, among the very first set of local cancellations related to the coronavirus.
MARCH 8
Italy locks down 16 million people, roughly a quarter of its population, in an attempt to avoid coronavirus from dispersing. The U.S. death toll increases to 21, nearly all of them linked to an assisted living home in Washington state.
MARCH 9
The Grand Princess cruise ship, with 21 verified cases of coronavirus amongst about 2,400 people on the ship, is enabled to dock in Oakland, where its passengers will be processed and quarantined at websites around the U.S.
MARCH 11
The World Health Organization declares the coronavirus an international pandemic. President Donald Trump suspends most take a trip from continental Europe to the United States throughout an address from the White Home. The National Basketball Association suspends its season forever after Rudy Gobert, a gamer for the Utah Jazz, tests positive for coronavirus.
MARCH 12
The National Collegiate Athletic Association cancels its spring basketball competitions, March Insanity.
MARCH 13
President Trump declares a nationwide emergency and reveals he will maximize $50 billion in federal resources to combat coronavirus. Sonoma County’s public health officer prohibits family visits to senior care facilities and public gatherings with more than 250 individuals.
MARCH 14
Sonoma County reports its very first case of coronavirus not connected to a cruise ship or travel to China.
MARCH 15
Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for the closure of bars, winery tasting spaces, nightclubs and brewpubs, and informs dining establishments to reduce their occupancy by half. He calls it a “pragmatic response to the minute.”
MARCH 16
Six Bay Area counties, however not Sonoma County, talk residents to stay at home and that only essential errands and travel to jobs thought about important are permitted. Newsom orders dining establishments statewide to close dining rooms, limiting food sales to takeout or shipment just.
MARCH 17
Sonoma County officials order all locals to remain house.
MARCH 18
As Sonoma County awakens to empty streets and closed services, the BottleRock music festival in Napa is held off. The sold-out 8th annual event, originally set up for May 22-24 in downtown Napa, has actually been relocated to the weekend of Oct. 2-4 since of concerns for public security.
MARCH 19
Gov. Gavin Newsom orders all Californians to stay home. California’s 40 million homeowners must stay at home forever and venture outside just for important jobs, errands and some exercise, the governor says.
MARCH 20
The first individual contaminated with coronavirus dies in Sonoma County as New York and Illinois tell all locals to stay home, suggesting 1 in 5 Americans is now under a shutdown order.
MARCH 21
On the first weekend following Sonoma County’s stay-at-home order, countless individuals flock to the county’s beaches, from Jenner’s Goat Rock Beach to Dillon Beach, and Bodega Bay is overwhelmed with visitors. Sonoma County officials raise the alarm that appropriate social distancing should be maintained.
MARCH 23
All parks in Sonoma County are closed to the general public. The order includes all city, county, state and federal parks, and comes as health authorities try to more enforcement of social-distancing practices.
MARCH 24
Senate leaders and the White Home strike an arrangement on a $2.2 trillion procedure to help workers, services and the health care system. Three Santa Rosa policeman and a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy test favorable for COVID-19
MARCH 25
The Sonoma County Office of Education recommends schoolchildren be kept out of the class through May 1, and all school districts in the county embrace that recommendation, extending home finding out through that date, a minimum of.
MARCH 26
Oakmont marks its first favorable test for coronavirus, bringing the variety of cases in Sonoma County to 49.
MARCH 27
Sonoma County health officials announce that nearly half of the county residents to test positive for the coronavirus are in between the ages of 18 and 49.
MARCH 28
Dr. Sundari Mase, Sonoma County’s newly set up health officer, stated she’s positive the procedures being taken will pay off in the long run. “There will be remedy for this, and we will recall and state, ‘Wow, it was an advantage we put those orders in location. Due to the fact that we saved lives,'” she said.
MARCH 30
Coronavirus cases increase to 73 in Sonoma County, and a mail carrier tests favorable for COVID-19
MARCH 31
Veteran Santa Rosa police detective Marylou Armer passes away from issues caused by the coronavirus. Armer, an American Canyon resident, was 43 and had actually served in the Santa Rosa Authorities Department for more than 20 years. She is the very first Napa County citizen to die from COVID-19 Sonoma County extends its shelter-in-place advisory through May 3, with new limitations.
APRIL 1
Sonoma County’s colleges and public schools make it official: students will not go back to campus this academic year. New York state continues breaking away as the American center of the crisis, with the state’s death toll doubling in 72 hours to more than 1,900
APRIL 2
Capt. Brett Crozier, a Santa Rosa native, is gotten rid of as captain of the stricken attack aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. The move comes days after Crozier sent a letter, leaked to the media, that implored his superior officers for more assistance as a coronavirus outbreak spread aboard the ship.
APRIL 3
Capt. Brett Crozier’s team cheers him as he exits the Theodore Roosevelt.
APRIL 4
Public health officer Dr. Sundari Mase suggests that Sonoma County citizens should cover their mouths and noses with scarves, bandannas or other makeshift masks when leaving the house for essential errands and duties, affirming recommendations from the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention.
APRIL 5
The New York Times and others report that Brett Crozier, the Navy captain from Santa Rosa who was eased of his command days previously, has checked favorable for COVID-19 and remains in quarantine.
APRIL 6
The coronavirus death toll in the United States surpasses 10,000 Overseas, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is admitted to an intensive care unit with coronavirus signs.
APRIL 7
Gov. Gavin Newsom reveals that California has actually secured a month-to-month supply of 200 million N95 respiratory and surgical masks to help secure health-care workers on the cutting edge of the coronavirus crisis. The acting secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly, resigns days after publicly disparaging Capt. Brett Crozier of Santa Rosa, the former captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
APRIL 8
Sonoma County sees its greatest one-day dive in coronavirus cases with 16 new cases, bringing the county’s overall to83 Fifty-two of those very first 83 clients had actually recovered.
APRIL 9
With more than 17 million Americans having actually filed for unemployment in a four-week period, the United States is experiencing the worst job loss because the Great Depression. Patients with lupus and other disorders are facing shortages of an essential drug for their health– hydroxychloroquine, a drug President Donald Trump has touted numerous times in press rundowns as a possible coronavirus treatment.
APRIL 10
Sonoma County sees its second death attributed to the coronavirus. The death comes 3 weeks after the very first casualty connected to the coronavirus was reported. Health authorities put more stringent quarantine orders into location.
APRIL 11
The U.S. death toll exceeds 20,000 and ends up being the world’s highest overall of casualties related to the coronavirus, surpassing Italy.
APRIL 12
As of Easter Sunday, Sonoma County confirms 147 county locals with the new coronavirus. Of those, 21 were hospitalized, 61 had recuperated and two people had died.
APRIL 13
Dr. Sundari Mase, Sonoma County’s health officer, unveils a new requirement: everybody needs to use a face covering when they go inside any structure besides house, or when outdoors if unable to remain a minimum of 6 feet far from others. The steps end up being official at the end of the week.
APRIL 14
Gov. Gavin Newsom lays out 6 goals to reach before the stay-at-home order in California can be lifted, consisting of the capability to carefully monitor and track possible cases and to avoid infection of high-risk people. Sonoma County will develop its own strategies for raising its shelter-in-place constraints in part because the timing of the pandemic’s peak, forecasted to show up in Sonoma County between May 28 and June 2, is a number of weeks behind statewide models.
APRIL 15
U.S. retail sales, that include purchases in stores and online as well as cash invested at bars and restaurants, fell 8.7%from the previous month nationally, the Commerce Department reveals. The decrease is by far the largest in the nearly three decades the government has actually tracked the information.
APRIL 16
Federal data reveal that 22 million individuals have lost their tasks given that the coronavirus outbreak reached the U.S., roughly the very same number of jobs as were produced over the previous 9 1/2 years. After previously asserting he had the final say when states began to loosen up shelter-in-place orders, President Donald Trump concedes that states will make their own decisions.
APRIL 17
A brand-new rule requiring face coverings outside the house in Sonoma County enters into impact. President Trump takes to Twitter to advise homeowners of some states to defy shelter-in-place orders, tweeting, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN,” “LIBERATE MINNESOTA” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA” as protesters in those states neglect rules needing social distancing.
