Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the U.N. agency, said the WHO is โdeeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severityโ of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about โthe alarming levels of inaction.โ
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โWe have, therefore, made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic,โ he said at a briefing in Geneva.
โAll countries can still change the course of this pandemic. If countries detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilize their people in the response,โ Tedros said.
