Coronavirus Pandemic Year Review 2020
27 Jan 2021
On 27 January 2020, we published our first daily coronavirus report. At the time, no one could have foreseen just how much impact the outbreak, which only had 2,886 confirmed cases at the time, would have on the whole world. In this report we look back at the year the world changed irrecoverably.
Introduction
On 27 January 2020, we published our first daily coronavirus report, titled the Wuhan Coronavirus Update, which quickly grew into a global update as the pandemic spread. A year later, these reports continue with fortnightly updates. At the time, no one could have foreseen just how much impact the outbreak, which only had 2,886 confirmed cases at the time, would have on the whole world. Even when European countries went into their first lockdowns, there was talk of the whole pandemic being over by the summer. Now with the mass rollout of vaccines, an end is in sight. However, there are likely to be lingering side effects of the pandemic for decades to come.
In this report we review:
- How the coronavirus came to light
- How global travel and hospitality have been affected
- The side-effects of national lockdown
- Environmental hope and strain
- Conspiracy theories and misinformation attached to COVID-19
- Coronavirus in 2021
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