One year ago today the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported publicly on a potential outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin. There were 27 cases, 7 of them serious. No one had died.

One year ago today the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was closed for "sanitation and renovation," or, if you asked state-run Xinhua news, just for "renovation."

As of one year ago today, 41 people in China had been admitted to the hospital with what was later termed 2019-novel coronavirus.

One year ago today, the US was officially notified about the novel coronavirus when the directors of the US and China CDC spoke on the phone.

The BBC ran its first story on the "mystery virus."

One year ago today, China had reached a total of 59 cases of the unexplained pneumonia, with seven of them deemed serious.

SARS, MERS, and bird flu had been ruled out as the culprit.

One year ago today the New York Times ran its first story on the strange "pneumonia-like illness" in China.

One year ago today the CDC issued its first travel notice regarding Wuhan.

Also, it was first reported that the "mysterious" pneumonia was caused by a novel coronavirus.

One year ago today a 61-year-old man in China became the first person to (officially) die from the novel coronavirus.

One year ago today the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus was posted on http://Virological.org  for the first time.