WHO approves emergency use of the Pfizer/BionTech Covid vaccine

As the world embraces the dawn of a new year, while tentatively waiting to see what it has in store, it will be some time before the trauma of 2020 can be laid to rest. The year that has just ended will forever be remembered for the Covid-19 pandemic that has claimed over 1.8 million lives to date, infected millions worldwide, and decimated the global economy.

The current assumption is that Covid-19 began in central China, with the first cases reported in Wuhan, in December 2019. However, some sources dispute the origins of the virus, with claims that it may have been spreading undetected in Europe even earlier in the year. The bottom line is that, as with much else connected to this virus, nobody really knows yet.

Here, we take a look back on 2020’s Covid-19 milestones as they occurred.

January 9
Covid-19 claims its first life, in Wuhan, China. Chinese authorities report the death of…