The World Health Organization has formally declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. 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-General Tedros Adhanom...
Tedros said COVID-19 is the first time a coronavirus has caused a pandemic. The 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS, which is also a coronavirus, was contained enough to avoid that classification. Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's health emergencies program, said health officials take ...
GENEVA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a "pandemic" as the virus spreads increasingly worldwide. "We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic," WHO Di...
GENEVA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a "pandemic" as the virus spreads increasingly worldwide. "We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic," WHO Di...
WHO officials had said earlier they were hesitant to call the outbreak a pandemic in case it led governments and individuals to give up the fight. On Wednesday, they stressed that fundamental public health interventions can still limit the spread of the virus and drive down cases even where it...
It's the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since H1N1 "swine flu" in 2009. In a US House of Representatives hearing on the COVID-19 outbreak on Wednesday, Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that some COVID-19 deaths ...
"We have therefore made the assessment that#COVID19can be characterized as a pandemic"-@DrTedros#coronaviruspic.twitter.com/JqdsM2051A — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO)March 11, 2020 The WHO continues to closely monitoring spread of the virus, said Tedros Adhanom, director gene...
COVID-19 is the first coronavirus to be labeled a pandemic. Viruses that have caused past pandemics typically originated from animal influenza viruses - some examples are H1N1 of 2009 or the Spanish flu of 1918. How is it different from an epidemic or outbreak?
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned that the new coronavirus pandemic is still worsening globally, despite reductions in infections and deaths across Europe. Around the world, the coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people, with the toll rising by thousands every day. The...
Why is COVID-19 data being presented as weekly statistics? A number of countries have stopped reporting or changed their frequency of reporting COVID-19 case and death counts to WHO. An outcome of these differences in reporting is that WHO may receive daily data from some countries, while ...