Timeline

November 2020
The Plague was first discovered from a poor Chinese family outside Xining. 5/13 members of the family were tested positive and none of them made recoveries, with the last dying in February 2021. They described the youngest being infected after being bit by an unknown animal in the woods and infected 4 of his family members through water droplets. This news made many skeptics question if the family were not Patient 0 and there was an already reanimated Patient 0 wandering around Xining. By the end of the month, 9 new cases with no connection to the family were brought up, forcing the Chinese government to secretly place the city under lockdown. Exotic animal trading was banned across the country 2 days later.

December 2020
The Plague expectedly spreads to other areas of China. Cases also arise in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan but are silenced by the media. By the end of the month, the cases were estimated to be roughly around 10,000. Dark web organ trading is believed to be behind the rapid spread.

January 2021
One of the original infected family members die to the virus with no clear indication of how. There was no report of their body reanimating, causing some survivors to believe there to be 2 strands of the virus. Some cases rose in South Korea, Japan and Thailand but were believed to be flu outbreaks.

February 2021
China contacts WHO and the UN for help as cases pass 50,000 and deaths dramatically rise to 2,000. Timeline of death is revealed to be 2 weeks, but some citizens report people dying in less than 24 hours. South Korea and Japan suffer from major outbreaks as the Virus moves to India. The United States also sees their first case, the first outside of Asia. At this point, the majority of the public believed the virus to be a new strain of the flu, despite some deaths evidently showing a reanimation.