The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a worldwide pandemic on 11 March 2020.
We established a health alert on 21 January 2020.
Read more about:
- what we did about the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2023
 - what we are doing about COVID-19 now
 - COVID-19
 - COVID-19 vaccination.
 
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