The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the Covid-19 epidemic, which has infected more than 110,000 people worldwide since late December, could be considered a "pandemic". For several days, the threat had been estimated as "very real".
"We felt that Covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference in Geneva.
Factually, we speak of a pandemic in the event of a worldwide spread of a new disease. The Director-General of WHO expressed his deep concern on Wednesday at the "alarming levels of inaction" of the international community faced with the "alarming levels of spread" of the new coronavirus. "In the days and weeks to come, we expect the number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries to increase," he warned.
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