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The symptom onset date of the first patient identified was “Dec 1, 2019“

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Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.

Doctors notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”

Chinese medical staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined.

Wuhan hospitals notice “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market

Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.

Chinese Health officials inform the WHO about a cluster of 44 patients with a mysterious pneumonia connected to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. 27 cases in Wuhan.

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Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market closes.

The CDC “issued a level 1 travel watch — the lowest of its three levels — for China’s outbreak.

China declined to allow the CDC to assist with the investigation

Chinese authorities identify a new type of coronavirus (called novel coronavirus or nCoV).

WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available

China records its first death.

First coronavirus case outside of China is reported in Thailand.

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Japan reported its first case of coronavirus.

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The CDC and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection announce that travelers from Wuhan to the United States will undergo entry screening for symptoms associated with 2019-nCoV at three U.S. airports that receive most of the travelers from Wuhan, China: San Francisco, New York (JFK), and Los Angeles airports.

HHS Secretary Azar has his first COVID-19 discussion with President Trump.

Despite the fact that Wuhan doctors know the virus is contagious, city authorities allow 40,000 families to gather and share home-cooked food in a Lunar New Year banquet.

The head of China’s national health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected.

Virus has spread to Beijing, Shenzhen, Thailand, and Japan

First US case is reported: a 35-year-old man in Snohomish County, Washington.

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Wuhan is placed under quarantine after 17 deaths reported; Hubei province follows within days.

China transport links shut down in 13 cities. Threat to UK is low.

Vietnam reports person-to-person transmission

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195 Americans return from China

WHO declares a global public health emergency

The CDC reported the first case of person-to-person transmission in the U.S. is husband of a Chicago woman after visiting China.

US declares public health emergency.

President Trump bans foreign nationals from entering the US if they were in China within the prior two weeks.

First death outside China is recorded in the Philippines.

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Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella urged residents to hug Chinese people to encourage them in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Associazione Unione Giovani Italo Cinesi, a Chinese society in Italy aimed at promoting friendship between people in the two countries, called for respect for novel coronavirus patients during a street demonstration. “I’m not a virus. I’m a human. Eradicate the prejudice.”

First death in US

Chinese whistleblower Li Wenliang dies.

Death toll in China surpasses that of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, with 811 deaths recorded.

WHO announces that the new coronavirus disease will be called “COVID-19.”

Coronavirus cases start to spike in South Korea.

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US citizen dies in Wuhan – first death of an American citizen.

The first coronavirus death was recorded outside Asia. The patient was an 80-year-old Chinese tourist who died in France.

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Egypt confirmed its first coronavirus case, becoming the first country in Africa to be affected by the outbreak. The global death toll passes 1,500, including three outside mainland China.

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Iran outbreak begins. Passengers leave the Diamond Princess.

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South Korea reported its first coronavirus death, as the country’s number of confirmed cases rose to 104. It was the ninth confirmed death from the virus outside mainland China.

Italy outbreak begins.

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The CDC told reporters that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.

Virus arrives in Italy and lock downs country

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The U.S. stock market plummeted over coronavirus fears, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the worst day in two years.

Pandemic declared

The CDC confirmed an infection in California despite not visiting a foreign country recently or coming in contact with an infected patient.

Brazil confirmed its first coronavirus case, the first in Latin America.

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US Flawed test kits: the CDC has taken steps to address problems with flawed test kits mailed to state and local labs.

US reports first death on American soil

President Donald Trump announced additional travel restrictions for Iran and increased warnings about travel to Italy and South Korea.

FDA begins to start testing

Republic of Ireland, first case

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U.S. surpasses 100 cases, 118 cases

Coronavirus cases begin to sharply increase in Spain, marking the start of its outbreak

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U.S. Federal Reserve
made an unscheduled cut to the fed funds rate. It slashed rates by 0.5%, double the amount of its recent moves, and the largest cut since the 2008 financial crisis.

Researchers at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy published “Censured Contagion,” a report that meticulously documents a timeline and body of facts that paint quite a different picture than the WHO report, and placing WHO’s accolades for China’s “response structures” that were “rapidly put in place” in doubt.

First UK Death

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President Trump signed an $8.3 billion spending bill, currently called “Phase One” of stimulus efforts, to fund efforts to fight the pandemic.²¹ Among other things it:

Funded research on a vaccine

Gave money to state and local governments to fight the spread of the virus

Allocated money to help with efforts to stop the virus’s spread overseas²²

^{Wall Street Journal. “President Trump Signs Coronavirus Spending Bill,” Accessed March 17, 2020.}

Vice President Mike Pence announced that 21 people aboard the Grand Princess, a cruise ship being held off the coast of California, tested positive for the coronavirus.

Austin, Texas, cancels the SXSW conference and festivals amid the coronavirus concerns, following the cancellation of other high-profile events across the country.

U.S. surpasses 500 cases

Italy places all 60 million residents on lockdown.

WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic.

President Trump bans all travel from 26 European countries.

U.S. surpasses 1,000 cases, 1,281 cases

US testing rollout ‘a failing’

The Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced that they tested positive for the coronavirus. They announced on Instagram that they are being isolated and observed in Australia, where Hanks was in pre-production for a film.

Fed massively expanded reverse repo operations, adding $1.5 trillion of liquidity to the banking system.⁵ This means that the Fed extended the amount of short term loans to banks to keep money markets (markets for very short term loans) stable and allow banks to have more cash on hand.

Trump declared a national state of emergency that could free up $50 billion to help fight the pandemic.

Trump tweeted that some cruise lines, including Princess Cruises, Norwegian and Royal Caribbean, will suspend outbound trips, at his request, for 30 days.

US travel ban extended to the UK and Ireland

the Federal Reserve set out several pieces of monetary stimulus:

It cut interest rates by a full percentage point, down to a range of 0.00% to 0.25%. This dropped the fed funds rate to the level it was before the rate increases starting in 2015.

The Federal Reserve restarted quantitative easing with the purchase of $500 billion in treasuries and $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities.⁶

The Fed lowered the interest rate on the discount window by 1.5% to 0.25%. The discount window is another way the Fed lends to banks.

15 Days to slow the spread; Trump issued guidelines that called for Americans to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people for the next 15 days and to limit discretionary travel, among other guidelines.

The Federal Reserve increased reverse repo operations by another $500 billion

U.S. researchers administered the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine. Even if the trials go well, health officials warned that a vaccine would not be widely available for at least 12 to 18 months.

Wall Street plunged again, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank by 3,000 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down by around 12 percent by the closing bell.

Canada announced plans to close the border to noncitizens, as the country’s number of confirmed cases rose to 339 with one death. The border restrictions include some exceptions, including for U.S. citizens

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Germany sealed its borders with France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Denmark to curb the virus’ spread. The border controls only allow through goods and people who work in neighboring nations and thus commute across state lines.

Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, a wartime authority that allows him to direct industry to produce critical equipment.

As the war of words between China and the U.S. over COVID-19 heats up, Chinese state media have raised the specter of using Beijing‘s pharmaceutical leverage to block critical components and supplies for dependent U.S. drug companies and send America into “the hell of a novel coronavirus epidemic.”

A leaked US federal plan warns the new pandemic “will last 18 months or longer” and may come in “multiple waves” of infections.

The Fed introduced two new programs to help preserve market liquidity:

The Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) which allows the Fed to create a corporation which can purchase commercial paper, short-term, unsecured loans made by businesses for everyday expenses. The Treasury authorized up to $10 billion from the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) to help cover loan losses incurred under this program.⁹ The program will end on March 17, 2021 unless it is extended.¹⁰ This is actually a re-launch of a program originally launched during the Great Recession, when many businesses were hurt when liquidity in the commercial paper markets dried up.¹¹

The Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF). Starting March 20, the PDCF will offer short-term loans to banks secured by collateral such as municipal bonds or investment-grade corporate debt¹² . The program will run at least six months, and longer if needed.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that viable virus could be detected up to three hours later in the air, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard, and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

West Virginia, the last state in the U.S. without a confirmed coronavirus case, recorded its first. Confirmed cases across the country rose to more than 5,800 and the death toll surpassed 100.

The Kentucky Derby was postponed until September, along with several other major sporting events.

The European Union announced a 30-day ban on most non-essential incoming travel.

President Trump signed a coronavirus aid bill into law, “Phase 2”. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act would provide free coronavirus testing and ensure paid emergency leave for those infected or caring for a family member with the illness, while also providing additional Medicaid funding, food assistance and unemployment benefits.

A CDC report found that among the roughly 12% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. known to need hospitalizations, about 1 in 5 were among people ages 20 to 44.

Trading halted on Wall Street for the fourth time in two weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a loss of just over 1,300 points and the S&P fell by 5 percent.

Canada and the U.S. agreed to close its borders to all “non-essential traffic.”

China reports no new locally spread infections for the first time since the pandemic began.

U.S. surpasses 10,000 cases, 13,747 cases

The U.S. State Department raised the global travel advisory to Level 4: Do Not Travel, warning Americans against traveling internationally and for those abroad to consider returning immediately.

China exonerated Dr. Li Wenliang, the doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the coronavirus outbreak and later died of the disease.

Australia and New Zealand announced plans to close their borders to all foreigners.

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US closes border with Mexico for non-essential travel

The US Dow Jones Industrial Average sank by 916 points and the S&P 500 closed the day down 4.3 percent, marking its worst weekly performance since the 2008 financial crisis.

UK Pubs closed

Virus arrives in Portugal

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Virus arrives in Hungary

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President Trump announced that he would activate the federal National Guard to assist Washington, California and New York, three of the states hit hardest by the pandemic.

US Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., became the first known senator to test positive for coronavirus.

New York City confirms 21,000 cases, making it the biggest epicenter of the outbreak in the US.

UK Lockdown

Tokyo Olympics postponed

Prince Charles, 71, who is first in line to the British throne, tested positive for coronavirus.

Total confirmed cases in the US reach 83,836 — the highest in the world — surpassing China’s 81,782 and Italy’s 80,589.

$2T US aid package “Phase 3” signed

U.S. surpasses 100,000 cases, 101,657 cases

Italy reports the highest single-day death toll for any country: 919.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive for coronavirus.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of a new, rapid coronavirus test that could give patients results in less than 15 minutes.

CDC issues travel advisory to New York area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut)

US White House extends social distancing guidelines until 30-Apr-20

The coronavirus economic freeze could cost 47 million jobs and send the unemployment rate past 32%

Roughly 80% of all Americans are under lockdown, as 35 states issue stay-at-home orders.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons ordered a lockdown of its facilities in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Wall Street ended one of the worst quarters in stock market history, an indication of the devastating economic impact of the pandemic.

More than 1/3 of humanity is under some form of lockdown.

U.S. surpasses 200,000 cases, 213,372 cases

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a stay-at-home order for the entire state after weeks of resistance. Florida reported nearly 7,000 confirmed cases and 87 deaths.

Globally, authorities report almost 922,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with about 656,000 being active and ongoing cases, roughly 193,000 recoveries, and 46,000 deaths.

Wimbledon tennis tournament was canceled.

Global number of coronavirus cases exceeds one million

US: CDC recommends use of face masks

The White House and the CDC recommended Americans wear cloth face coverings in public to prevent the spread of the virus.

U.S. surpasses 300,000 cases, over 8,000 deaths

More than 150 crew members of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier whose captain was relieved of command after raising concerns about the coronavirus tested positive. More than 1,500 sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt were moved ashore after a letter written by Capt. Brett Crozier was leaked.

The Coral Princess cruise ship, which had been stranded at sea with at least 12 people with coronavirus aboard, arrived at Port Miami in Florida. The ship was carrying a total of 1,020 passengers and 878 crew.

A 4-year-old tiger at the Bronx zoo has tested positive for coronavirus.

78 countries have banned exports of goods needed in Pandemic

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II gave a rare address to the nation about the coronavirus pandemic, as deaths in the U.K. surpassed 4,300.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was transferred to the intensive care unit at a London hospital after his COVID-19 symptoms worsened.

The city of Wuhan was lit up after midnight to celebrate the lifting of a 76-day lockdown.

Another 6.6 million American workers filed first-time unemployment claims for the week ending April 4, bringing the cumulative total to 16 million over the past three weeks.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved out of the intensive care unit but remained hospitalized.

US marks deadliest day; More than 2,000 people died on Good Friday, a new daily high in the nation’s fight against COVID-19.

Apple and Google announced a rare partnership to try to use smartphone technology to trace the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

US has most deaths; More than 19,700 people in the U.S. had died due to complications from the coronavirus.

Coronavirus cases spiked aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt more than a week after its captain, Brett Crozier, was relieved of duty for sounding the alarm about an outbreak on the ship. A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt would later die of coronavirus complications on April 13.

Wyoming became the final state to receive a major disaster declaration, meaning such declarations were in effect for every state in the country.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson left the London hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first saliva test to diagnose COVID-19. The test initially will be available through hospitals and clinics affiliated with Rutgers University in New Jersey.

The Supreme Court announced it would hear half of the remaining cases of the term by telephone conference call — a first in the court’s history — with the justices and the lawyers calling in remotely.

The governors of several northeastern states, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, outlined the first steps each state will take towards easing lockdown restrictions. The Democratic officials said each state would form a panel of experts to monitor the outbreak in the region and help devise a plan to slowly reopen parts of each state.

All 50 states report deaths in the US

Trump announced that US WHO funding was suspended until a US WHO investigation could be completed about China bias decisions

Trump announced a new federal Dynamic Ventilator Reserve to have them available when needed

US Protests erupt over stay-at-home orders

Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival announced that the event will not take place this year in “its original form” due to the pandemic.

The latest US jobless claim numbers were announced: Around 5 million more people filed for first-time unemployment claims in the week ending April 11, as the job market in every sector of the economy continued to be devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.

US White House issues guidance to reopen

Seven US midwestern governors announced they are forming a regional pact to plan for the reopening of their respective economies.

US Texas: State governor G. Abbott announced a phased reopening of Texas’ economy beginning April 20th.^[476]; Texas, Minnesota, Vermont and Montana announced plans to reopen.

Florida reopens certain beaches, South Carolina reopens certain boat ramps as states begin to loosen restrictions.

Comic-Con 2020 was canceled for the first time in its 50-year history.

U.S. surpasses 700,000 cases, 36,734 deaths

Shake Shack, one of several large restaurant chains that secured federal loans through the coronavirus stimulus law meant to help small businesses, said that it is giving all $10 million back.

Oil prices plunged into negative territory as global demand plummeted.

US States announce plans to reopen: Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia

President Trump said that he is temporarily suspending immigration to the United States in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the “need to protect jobs.”

Chinese officials spoke out against President Trump’s remarks about suspicions that the coronavirus outbreak originated from a laboratory in the city of Wuhan. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang called the remarks irresponsible, and said they spread conspiracy theories and politicize the crisis.

Round 3 of US funding approved to replenish SBA loans and fund hospitals. The Senate passed a nearly $500 billion interim coronavirus bill that includes additional money for the small business loan program as well as for hospitals and testing.

Temporary ban on immigration (green cards)

FDA approves LabCorp’s at home COVID-19 test

Spain’s San Fermin bull run was canceled because of the pandemic. The event has only been canceled four other times in history; in 1937 and 1938 for the Spanish civil war, in 1978 following clashes between police and Basque nationalists, and in 1997 after the assassination of a Spanish politician by the ETA separatist group.

German officials canceled Oktoberfest, which was scheduled to be held from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, amid concerns of spreading the coronavirus.

US Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government Tuesday accusing it of lying about the danger posed by the coronavirus when it first emerged in late 2019.

Tyson Foods suspended operations at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been devastated by a growing coronavirus outbreak.

The House approved $484 billion legislation that includes funding for hospitals that have been overwhelmed during the crisis and money for a coronavirus testing program. The bill would pump $320 billion into the Paycheck Protection Program, which is designed to keep small businesses from shuttering and their workers from going on unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic.

New US jobless claims numbers showed another 4.4 million Americans filed claims in the week ending April 18th. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 26 million people have requested unemployment

The US Food and Drug Administration cautioned against prescribing hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial touted by President Trump, to COVID-19 patients outside of hospital settings or clinical trials.

COLLEYVILLE, Texas opened up for business.

Georgia, Oklahoma, and Alaska, which on Friday began loosening lockdown restrictions on businesses despite health officials warning the gradual return to daily life might be happening too soon.

In Georgia, gyms, tattoo parlors, hair and nail salons, massage therapists, and other businesses were allowed to reopen. Some businesses filled up with clients, but other remained dark.

US: Thousands of protestors assembled on the Wisconsin Capitol, expressing opposition to the extended stay-at-home order put in place by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

The manufacturer for Lysol, a disinfectant spray and cleaning product, issued a statement warning against any internal use after President Trump suggested people could get an “injection” of “the disinfectant that knocks (coronavirus) out in a minute.

The WHO issued a statement saying there is still “no evidence” that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.

Medical officials in Rio de Janeiro and at least four other major cities in Brazil warned that their hospital systems are on the verge of collapse. President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed the outbreak despite the country’s nearly 53,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,600 deaths.

The CDC cautioned that six new symptoms could be signs of the coronavirus: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and a loss of taste or smell.

The board chairman of Tyson Foods said in a full-page advertisement published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that “millions of pounds of meat” will disappear from the national supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak forces food processing plants to shutter.

Tennessee, Mississippi, and Montana allowed some businesses to reopen Monday under new health guidelines as several states begin to relax coronavirus lockdown restrictions in a bid to get America’s workers safely back to work.

JetBlue Airways became the first U.S. airline to announce that all passengers will have to wear a face covering on flights.

U.S. surpasses 1,000,000 cases, 1,002,498 cases

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8263925/Ohio-11th-state-lift-coronavirus-restrictions-83million-Americans-return-normal.html

Eleven US states release restrictions by Friday, 1-May-2020

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a plan to lift the state’s stay-at-home orders, slated to go into effect on May 4 in every county except Dade, Palm Beach and Broward counties, where most of the Covid-19 cases in the state have been reported.

The number of U.S. coronavirus deaths surpassed 60,000.

Around 3.8 million more workers in the U.S. filed for first-time employment benefits last week, bringing the national jobless total to 30 million — or around 18 percent of the workforce.

A US Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, departed New York City, a month after it was sent to relieve stress on local hospitals. The Comfort treated just 182 people as a surge in cases in the city fell short of the worst-case projections.

The World Health Organization said it is “urgently” investigating a potential link between the coronavirus and Kawasaki syndrome, an illness of unknown cause that primarily affects children under 5.

US: The field hospital at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits convention center closed after the facility’s last coronavirus patients were discharged. Nearly 1,100 patients were treated at the convention center to help alleviate strain on the city’s hospitals.

India extended its nationwide lockdown for another two weeks after it was originally set to end May 4. The country reported more than 35,000 cases and 1,147 confirmed deaths from the virus.

US FDA Remdesivir, emergency use order

Meat supply issues 19 states had outbreaks in meat packing plants, 5,000 cases and 20 deaths

Gallup, NM sealed off

Vaccine fast track, ‘Operation warp speed’, to produce patient ready vaccine by January

93 potential vaccines and 3 or 4 vaccines might succeed

14 drugs for clinical trials

34 states easing lockdowns in phases

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ‘enormous evidence’ that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

UK MI 6, China, first wave, x4, about 250,00

Australian source, ‘Despite evidence of human to human transmission from early December, Chinese authorities deny it until January 20.’