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This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 13-19 December 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, dengue, chikungunya, Legionnaires' disease, seasonal influenza and avian influenza.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 10-16 May 2020 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, COVID-19 associatd with SARS-CoV-2, influenza season 2019-2020, Ebola virus disease in the Demoratic Republic of the Congo 2018-2020 and influenza A(H9N2).

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 8-14 March 2020 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, measles, influenza A(H9N2), seasonal influenza and COVID-19 associated with SARS-CoV-2.

This issue of the CDTR (Communicable Disease Threats Report) covers the period from 9-15 February 2020 and includes updates on COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, influenza and dengue fever.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 2-8 February 2020 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, 2019-nCoV, polio, seasonal influenza and MERS.

On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. On 9 January 2020, China CDC reported a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as the causative agent of this outbreak, which is phylogenetically in the SARS-CoV clade.

This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 26 January - 1 February 2020 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease, the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV outbreak in Wuhan, China and seasonal influenza.

As of 26 January 2020, a total of 2 026 laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV cases have been reported, 1 988 in China and 38 imported cases from other countries around the world. Fifty six deaths have been reported among the cases. Chinese health authorities have confirmed human-to-human transmission outside Hubei province and 16 healthcare workers are reported to have been infected.

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first discovered in 2012 in a patient who died from severe respiratory disease. Since then, and as of 16 January 2020, 2 521 cases have been reported worldwide, including 919 deaths (crude case fatality 36%). Most cases have been reported from the Arabian Peninsula (and around 84% specifically from Saudi Arabia), and all cases elsewhere had a travel history to the Arabian Peninsula or were a contact of someone who had a travel history to the region.

A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been isolated and considered the causative agent of the cluster of 41 pneumonia cases in the area of Wuhan, Hubei province in China, as well as of the three travel-related cases in Thailand and Japan, arriving from Wuhan.