2020

The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

[1] Geospatial World also called 2020 "the worst year in terms of climate change" in part due to major climate disasters worldwide, including major bushfires in Australia and the western United States, as well as extreme tropical cyclone activity affecting large parts of North America.

[2] A United Nations progress report published in December 2020 indicated that none of the international Sustainable Development Goals for 2020 were achieved.

It spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January, and assessed the outbreak had become a pandemic on 11 March.

Clockwise, from top left: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ; Malian Armed Forces overthrow the Government of Mali during the Malian coup d'état ; a missile attack causes destruction in Ganja during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War ; a man on a burned-out car observes damage from protests following the murder of George Floyd , who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin ; the aftermath of an airstrike on Mekelle during the Tigray War in Ethiopia ; destruction in the Port of Beirut , Lebanon , following an accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate that killed 218 people; mourners gather for the funeral of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani after he was assassinated by a drone strike ; a colorized transmission electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic , which infected billions and killed millions of people in 2020 and future years, causing the greatest stock market crash since the Great Depression and societal breakdown across the world.
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