WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a pandemic

The World Health Organisation declares coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

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

“We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. “Several countries have demonstrated that this virus can be suppressed and controlled,” Ghebreyesus said.

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