This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in January 2021, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Countries and territories that confirmed their first cases during January 2021:
Date | Country or territory |
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8 January | Federated States of Micronesia[54] |
By the end of January 2021, only the following countries and territories have not reported any cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections:
Africa
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Saturday is the fifth day in a row that new cases have topped 50,000 in the UK.
...taking the UK's total death toll to 75,431.
Global Tracker: Cases pass 90 million; deaths surpass 1.93 million
Mittlerweile gebe es sechs Virusnachweise bei sechs Personen aus drei Haushalten, teilte das Ministerium mit. (There are now six virus detections in six people from three households, the ministry said.)
The total number of cases in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 23 million.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to tighten Germany's lockdown as cases surpassed 2 million.