March 5, 2020: Sutter Santa Rosa orders coronavirus quarantine for at least 30 hospital workers, union says: Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital issued quarantine orders this week to at least 30 of its hospital workers who had contact with a patient with the coronavirus, the largest isolation order publicly reported so far at a single health care facility treating patients with the infectious disease in California, the union representing most front-line hospital staff said. March 3, 2020: Sonoma County coronavirus patient was passenger on Princess Cruises ship: A Sonoma County resident sick with the coronavirus at a local hospital had taken a Princess Cruises line from San Francisco to Mexico in February, the second ship owned by the cruise company linked to confirmed cases of the infectious disease. March 2, 2020: First Sonoma County resident diagnosed with coronavirus officials declare public health emergency: A Sonoma County resident who recently returned from a cruise to Mexico has been diagnosed with coronavirus - the first person living here to contract the illness that’s spread from China to at least another 68 countries - prompting county health officials to declare a local public health emergency that intensifies the fight against possible community transmission of the deadly virus. March 1, 2020: First COVID-19 death in United States. 25, 2020: Sonoma County hospital admits 1st person transferred here with coronavirus: A person who has tested positive for coronavirus and was a recent passenger on the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has been transferred to a local hospital, Sonoma County public health officials. State Department announced Sunday that it planned to evacuate personnel stationed in Wuhan, China, to San Francisco because of the coronavirus outbreak.įeb. 27, 2020: With coronavirus spreading, US evacuating personnel to San Francisco from Wuhan, China: The U.S. 7, 2020: Chinese health authorities confirmed that this cluster was associated with a novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. 31, 2019: China reported cases of pneumonia in people associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
Here is a timeline of headlines and stories that have documented the ongoing pandemic.ĭec. Caused by a new coronavirus dubbed SARS-CoV-2, the illness that came to be known as COVID-19 has killed more than 470 Sonoma County residents and has caused over 455 million deaths worldwide. It’s been more than two years since the world first heard of a mysterious respiratory illness that was triggering lockdowns in and around Wuhan, China.