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| | *21 January – United States announces first confirmed case, a Washington man in his early thirties. <ref> https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-timeline-tracking-critical-moments-covid-19-n1154341/</ref> | | *21 January – United States announces first confirmed case, a Washington man in his early thirties. <ref> https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-timeline-tracking-critical-moments-covid-19-n1154341/</ref> |
| | *23 January - Chinese Communist Party goes public about Wuhan virus epidemic. Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. | | *23 January - Chinese Communist Party goes public about Wuhan virus epidemic. Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown. |
| − | *24 January - Chinese Communist Party extends lockdown to cover 36 million people and begins building quarantine camps in Wuhan. | + | *24 January - The prestigious Lancet debunks CCP narrative that the virus originated in the Wuhan Seafood Market,<ref>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext</ref> demonstrating that of the original 40 cases, 14 of them had no contact with the seafood market, including Patient Zero.<ref>Cohen, Jon, "[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally]," ''Science'', Jan. 26, 2020.</ref> |
| − | *24-30 January - China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Approximately 5 million people have left Wuhan without being screened for the Chinese coronavirus. | + | :*Chinese Communist Party extends lockdown to cover 36 million people and begins building quarantine camps in Wuhan. |
| | + | :*24-30 January - China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Approximately 5 million people have left Wuhan without being screened for the Chinese coronavirus. |
| | *27 January - Vice President Mike Pence, head of the Coronavirus Task Force, outlines the Trump administration's efforts to work with China to counter coronavirus.<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-white-house-initiative-asian-americans-pacific-islanders-lunar-new-year-celebration/</ref> | | *27 January - Vice President Mike Pence, head of the Coronavirus Task Force, outlines the Trump administration's efforts to work with China to counter coronavirus.<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-white-house-initiative-asian-americans-pacific-islanders-lunar-new-year-celebration/</ref> |
| | :*Fake news outlet [[ABC News]] reports, ''New coronavirus 'not spreading' in the US, CDC says.'' The CDC official cited is Dr. Nancy Messonnier,<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232470073396170752.html</ref> sister of former Deputy [[Attorney General]] and [[Deep State]] conspirator [[Rod Rosenstein]].<ref>https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/tags/rod-rosenstein/</ref> | | :*Fake news outlet [[ABC News]] reports, ''New coronavirus 'not spreading' in the US, CDC says.'' The CDC official cited is Dr. Nancy Messonnier,<ref>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1232470073396170752.html</ref> sister of former Deputy [[Attorney General]] and [[Deep State]] conspirator [[Rod Rosenstein]].<ref>https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/tags/rod-rosenstein/</ref> |