Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2022

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This article documents the chronology of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2022, which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Some developments may become known or fully understood only in retrospect. Reporting on this pandemic began in December 2019.

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Reactions and measures in the Americas

19 April

Reactions and measures in South, East and Southeast Asia

1 April

27 April

Reactions and measures in the Western Pacific

13 April

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