Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared on Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic, SIA reports.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the UN agency, said the WHO is "deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity" of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about "the alarming levels of inaction." "We have, therefore, made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterised as a pandemic," he said at a briefing in Geneva.
"All countries can still change the course of this pandemic. If countries detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilise their people in the response," Tedros said.
The WHO added that Iran and Italy are the new front lines of the battle against the virus that started in China. "They're suffering but I guarantee you other countries will be in that situation soon," said Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO's emergency chief.
More than 121,500 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 4,383 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections outside China have been reported by 118 countries. The Democratic Republic of Congo reported its first case, while Indonesia, Lebanon, and Panama had their first fatalities.
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