Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021

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This article documents the chronology of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021, 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.

Contents

Reactions and measures in Africa

7 January

Reactions and measures in the Americas

Reactions and measures in the Eastern Mediterranean

Reactions and measures in Europe

4 January

Reactions and measures in South, Southeast and East Asia

1 January

2 January

3 January

11 January

12 January

21 January

30 January

Reactions and measures in the Western Pacific

3 January

6 January

7 January

8 January

12 January

15 January

19 January

22 January

25 January

26 January

31 January

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