Changes

*6-17 January - Wuhan authorities reported almost zero new cases of coronavirus.<ref>https://www.ntd.com/a-timeline-of-events-leading-up-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china_442592.html</ref>

*6-17 January - Wuhan authorities reported almost zero new cases of coronavirus.<ref>https://www.ntd.com/a-timeline-of-events-leading-up-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-in-china_442592.html</ref>

*7 January - CCP boss Xi Jinping gave unspecified internal orders about the virus during a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/16/coronavirus-chinas-xi-knew-crisis-weeks-before-going-public/4778687002/</ref>

*7 January - CCP boss Xi Jinping gave unspecified internal orders about the virus during a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/16/coronavirus-chinas-xi-knew-crisis-weeks-before-going-public/4778687002/</ref>

*11 January - More than one week after obtaining the virus genome sequence Chinese health authorities share it with the WHO.

*11 January - The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre published the world’s first [[genome]] sequence of the deadly coronavirus on open platforms.  

*14 January - World Health Organization publicly proclaims:  

*14 January - World Health Organization publicly proclaims:  

{{quotebox|"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/18/flashback-who-china-coronavirus-contagious/</ref>}}

{{quotebox|"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/18/flashback-who-china-coronavirus-contagious/</ref>}}

*15 January - In a dramatic "historic" event televised live by CNN and MSNBC, [[Democrats]] slow walk impeachment articles to the Senate.<ref>https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/04/01/two-fateful-events-occurred-on-january-15-one-loud-one-quiet-have-changed-the-u.s.-for</ref>

*15 January - Wuhan Institute of Virology published job posting for biosafety experts.<ref>http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Notice2016/202001/t20200115_229449.html</ref>

:In a dramatic "historic" event televised live by CNN and MSNBC, [[Democrats]] slow walk impeachment articles to the Senate.<ref>https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/04/01/two-fateful-events-occurred-on-january-15-one-loud-one-quiet-have-changed-the-u.s.-for</ref>

:*A 35-year-old man returned from visiting his family in Wuhan, China to Washington State’s Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Five days later, on January 20, he would become the first person in the U.S. to test positive for the coronavirus.<ref>https://twitter.com/JohnAshbrook/status/1244993365038501889</ref>

:*A 35-year-old man returned from visiting his family in Wuhan, China to Washington State’s Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Five days later, on January 20, he would become the first person in the U.S. to test positive for the coronavirus.<ref>https://twitter.com/JohnAshbrook/status/1244993365038501889</ref>

*17 January - CDC implements airport screening of flights from Wuhan on President Trump's orders.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/health/wuhan-virus-us-airport-screenings-china-bn/index.html</ref>

*17 January - CDC implements airport screening of flights from Wuhan on President Trump's orders.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/health/wuhan-virus-us-airport-screenings-china-bn/index.html</ref>