- World Health Organization calls coronavirus outbreak ‘pandemic’ for first time (reuters.com)UN releases US$15 million to help vulnerable countries battle the spread of the coronavirus (who.int)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization described the new coronavirus as a pandemic for the first time on Wednesday, adding that Italy and Iran were now on the frontline of the disease and other countries would soon join them...“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Wednesday...READ MORE
