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Was coronavirus spreading through Europe before we heard about it affecting China?

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Coronavirus. A word so familiar to us all, it's almost lost its meaning, except for the fact that it has changed our lives so drastically.

But when did this new strain of coronavirus begin to take hold? In January, the novel coronavirus was very much a foreign story, as it spread out from the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The first death was recorded in Wuhan on 11 January, the first death outside China occurring two days later in Thailand, one week later, the first US case of infection; in Washington.

Until now, the first human-to-human transmission within Europe was thought to have been a German man that was infected by a Chinese colleague who visited Germany between 19 and 22 January.

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