WHO labels COVID-19 a pandemic

12 Mar 2020 / Worldwide

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has today (11 March) labelled the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. A pandemic is a disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same time.

At a media briefing today, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks. He added, however, that calling the outbreak a pandemic did not mean the WHO was changing its advice about what countries should do.

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