The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020 As of 23 March, more than 339,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in over 190 countries and territories, resulting in more than 14,700 deaths and 99,000 recoveries