World Health Organization Officially Declares Coronavirus a Pandemic
Coronavirus was declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization as cases spread to at least 114 countries.
“WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, adding that it “therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.”
The virus, which first emerged in Wuhan, China, has now reached on Wednesday more than 118,000 people, causing at least 4,291 deaths.
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