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WHO Declares Coronavirus A Pandemic

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The World Health Organisation yesterday said that the new coronavirus outbreak can now be characterised as a pandemic, the head of

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“COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.

“We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus.”

At the briefing, the WHO Chief said the spread of the coronavirus is frightening.

“The spread and severity of the deadly new coronavirus, which has infected more than 110,000 people and killed more than 4,000, is “alarming”.

 “We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction”, he added

He predicted that the number of cases and deaths would grow in the coming days and weeks.

“We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus,” he said.

He also said hard-hit Iran was trying its best to control the outbreak but needed more supplies.

After global COVID-19 infections passed the 100,000-mark, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that “the threat of a pandemic has become very real.”

But he stressed, “even if we call it a pandemic, still we can contain it and control it.

“It would be the first pandemic in history that can be controlled,” he said. “We are not at the mercy of the virus.”

He pointed out that the situation varied widely in the 100-odd countries that have so far registered cases, with 93 percent of all cases being located in just four states.

“Whether it is pandemic or not, the rule of the game is the same: never give up,” he said.

He said 79 countries had registered fewer than 100 cases, and more than half of those had seen fewer than 10 infections.

At the same time, in China, where more than 80,000 cases have been recorded since the outbreak began there in December, the country appears to be “bringing the epidemic under control,” Tedros said.

“More than 70 percent have recovered and have been discharged,” he pointed out.

Since the novel coronavirus first emerged, 110,564 cases have been recorded across 100 countries, killing 3,862 people, according to an AFP toll based on official sources.

Michael Ryan, who heads the WHO’s emergencies programme, pointed out that unlike the flu, which spreads far easier, it is possible to slow down the spread of COVID-19.

– ‘No white flag’ –
He voiced hope that drastic measures taken by Italy could help rein in the virus, and would give less-affected countries more time to prepare for a wider spread.

But he acknowledged that “the disease has not run its course”.

“Right now, I think we are still very much in the beginning or middle… of this fight,” he said, warning against complacency towards the virus.

The WHO last week estimated it kills 3.4 percent of all those infected.

For infected people aged over 80, the fatality rate appears to be higher than 20 percent, according to a report from an international expert mission to China last month.

As for the word pandemic, “I am not worried about the word, I am more worried about what the world’s reaction to the word will be,” he told reporters.

Tedros also slammed those who might suggest simply letting the virus run its course, pointing out that for the elderly and weak especially “it is very fatal.”

“If anything is going to hurt the world it is moral decay, and not taking the deaths of the elderly or senior citizens” seriously, he said.

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