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Genoese galleys carrying plague from the Black Sea put in at Messina in Sicily, and the disease went ashore with them. Over the next seven years it killed perhaps a third of Europe - up to 50 million people - and took two centuries to be made good.

A camp cook reported sick at Fort Riley's Camp Funston in Kansas, and within days hundreds of soldiers were down with influenza. It is the first recorded outbreak of the pandemic that killed more people than the war it travelled with - somewhere between 25 and 50 million.

China locked down Wuhan and other Hubei cities on 23 January 2020 to quarantine the centre of the COVID-19 outbreak, confining some 11 million residents for 76 days until 8 April.

Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.

On 6 July 2020 Uber announced a deal to acquire the US food-delivery service Postmates for about US$2.65 billion in an all-stock transaction, after talks to buy Grubhub had broken down.

Cate Shortland's Black Widow, the first film of Phase Four, opened in the US on 9 July 2021 in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access after three pandemic delays.