
World Health Organization declares coronavirus pandemic

2020-03-12 09:42:00


	NEWS CENTER - The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

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	There are 118,000 cases, more than 4,000 deaths, the agency said, and the virus has found a foothold on every continent except for Antarctica.

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	"We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. And we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled at the same time," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday.

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	"Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change WHO's assessment of the threat posed by this coronavirus. It doesn't change what WHO is doing, and it doesn't change what countries should do."

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