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WHO epidemic intelligence system picks up a report about a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China, from the website of the Wuhan Health Authority and through WHO country office with the Government authorities in China 3 1 January 2020 WHO sets up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organisation: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak 2 January WHO informs the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), that includes more than 260 institutions in more than 70 countries 3 January China informs WHO under International Health Regulation (IHR) 2005 and also informs CDC in US, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, which in turn alert all hospitals in the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan 5 January China-CDC excludes SARS, MERS and Avian Influenza as the cause for the new coronavirus Officials confirm a case of Covid-19 in Thailand, the first recorded case outside of China 13-14 January A team of experts from Beijing, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Hubei visits Wuhan 14 January WHO\'s technical lead for COVID-19, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove tells a press briefing that there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus (in the 41 confirmed cases), mainly through family members, and that there was a risk of a possible wider outbreak First case in the United States with Trump responding to CNBC: \'we have it totally under control it\'s going to be just fine\' President Trump announces the formation of the President\'s Task Force on the Novel Coronavirus, which is chaired by the Secretary for Health and Human Services and coordinated through the National Security Council 4 30January The WHO Director-General reconvenes another Emergency Committee, that reaches consensus and advises the DG that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)
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