Covid-19

a horrible gift from 2019

Beginning of a brand-new decade 2020 which many regarded with excitement and as an opportunity for a new chapter in life.

As now people have started adapting to a new way of life under quarantine, they begin to integrate things that happened in 2020. Although the coronavirus is the new standard as countries continue to deal with the epidemic, certain incidents in 2020 tend to be a long-lost memory in a constantly shifting cycle of news.

On January 11, China confirmed its first death from the novel coronavirus, days after the World Health Organization heard about the virus outbreak.

Australia Bushfire

2020, the year started with the drastic bushfire which was happened in the Australia Amazon bushfire. The Australian bushfire season 2019–2020, named the black summer, started in June 2019 with many intense and unregulated fires, primarily in the country’s southeast. The fires have since been contained and extinguished which peaked during December 2019 and January 2020.

Bushfires have killed approximately 800 people in Australia since 1851, and billions of animals.

It is estimated that the 2019–2020 bushfires led to the deaths of at least 33 people and over 3 billion animals.
The scale of the fires have been fairly consistent since November along Australia's northern coast, particularly the largely rural Cape York peninsula in northern Queensland. In recent weeks there have been more fires detected along the eastern coast, nearer to major cities like Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

Source: Nasa Firms. Map built using Carto

Points represent any detection of fire, not actual area burned. Heat sources which are not bushfires make up less than 1% of data shown

Source: BBC News

Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought have fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia. Although recent cooler conditions and rain have brought some respite, more than 50 fires are still burning in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. Hot and windy conditions are forecast to return to many parts of New South Wales this weekend and authorities in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have declared a state of emergency as massive bushfires rage south of Canberra. At least 33 people have been killed - including four firefighters - and more than 11 million hectares (110,000 sq km or 27.2 million acres) of bush, forest and parks across Australia has burned.