Skip to main content
EditionEnglish edition·Édition française
What was the COVID era?
Seal of Magna Bureau Magna Bureau No Single Capital Owns the Whole Truth
Universal Encyclopedia

What was the COVID era?

On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic — and within weeks the world shut down. Two years that rewrote the state, the economy, and everyday life.

The short answer

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic — and within days the world did something it had never done in history: it stopped. Borders slammed shut, cities fell silent, and more than half of humanity learned to live behind masks and curfews.

The full file

Encyclopedia

Read the full file

On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic — and within weeks the world shut down. Two years that rewrote the state, the economy, and everyday life…

Related questions

What was the first university in the world?What was the House of Wisdom?What was the atomic bomb?What happened on September 11, 2001?What was the Arab Spring?What happened in Crimea in 2014?What is the Gaza war?What was ISIS?What was the Casablanca Conference of 1943?What caused the 2008 financial crisis?What was the dot-com crash?What was the Black Death?

More from the Bureau

All questionsFactbookRankings

Across the Bureau

The first storytellers: Aboriginal Australia — HistoryAda Lovelace: the first programmerSeeds of power: the Neolithic Revolution — HistoryAE — Country ProfileAfghanistan — Country ProfileAlbania — Country ProfileHistory of AE — TimelineHistory of Afghanistan — Timeline