WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic.
Domenico Cucinotta, Maurizio Vanelli
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1). At a news briefing , WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that over the past 2 weeks, the number of cases outside China increased 13-fold and the number of countries with cases increased threefold. Further increases are expected. He said that the WHO is "deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction," and he called on countries to take action now to contain the virus. "We should double down," he said. "We should be more aggressive." [...].
Topics & Concepts
PandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Outbreak2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)ChinaAction (physics)CoronavirusPolitical scienceVirologyDevelopment economicsEconomic growthMedicineLawEconomicsInfectious disease (medical specialty)DiseasePhysicsQuantum mechanicsPathologyCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts