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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The pandemic began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and has since spread to over 200 countries and territories. As of September 2022, over 600 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed, resulting in over 6 million deaths.