As the death toll continues to soar, it is hard to believe the world has only known about the deadly coronavirus for 100 days.
When the World Health Organisation was alerted to a mystery new illness in China on New Year’s Eve, only a handful of people had fallen ill.
Three and a half months on, it has claimed more than 75,000 lives worldwide, with 1.3 million confirmed cases, and China today reported its first day without a single death since the outbreak started.
Here, we look back on the key moments of the past 100 days as Covid-19 rocked the globe... December 31, 2019 Chinese authorities inform the World Health Organisation of a respiratory illness in the city of Wuhan.