In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared covid-19 a pandemic. In one year since the first case of infection with this new coronavirus was reported in China in December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has killed over 2.5 million people and infected at least 115 million. We look back at the key dates in a year that changed the world forever. From the first reported cases to the isolation and identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, through to the rapid development of vaccines and their eventual roll out, this is the story of the covid-19 pandemic.

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