Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020


This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

Case statistics

Pandemic chronology

1 April

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Timeline

Countries and territories that confirmed their first cases during April 2020:
DateCountry or territory
2 April Malawi
3 April Falkland Islands
4 AprilWestern Sahara
5 April Saint Pierre and Miquelon • South Sudan
6 April São Tomé and Príncipe
7 April AbkhaziaArtsakh
10 April Yemen
11 April Saba
16 April Bonaire
30 April Comoros • Tajikistan

By 30 April, the following countries and territories had not reported any cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections:
Africa
Asia
Europe
Oceania
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