WHO is calling coronavirus outbreak a pandemic
The WHO no longer has a category for declaring a pandemic, except for influenza
11 March 2020 - 19:15
Geneva — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is characterising the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterised as a pandemic,” he said in Geneva...
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