(ANSA) - ROME, 11 JAN - China announced the first death for Covid exactly one year ago. Since then, the virus has killed 1,936,614 people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
On January 11, 2020, the death was announced in correlation to the cases of viral pneumonia recorded starting in December from the outbreak identified in Wuhan, Hubei.
A few days earlier, the state television CCTV gave an account of the results of the analyzes of Chinese scientists according to which the cause of viral pneumonia was to be attributed in a preliminary way to a new type of coronavirus of the same family as Sars. (HANDLE).