'Pandemic is not a word to be used lightly,' said WHO's director-general.
Citing"alarming inaction" by some countries with growing coronavirus cases, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday declared that the worldwide outbreak was a pandemic — meaning it is spreading outside containment measures in multiple countries worldwide.
"Pandemic is not a word to be used lightly," said Tedros, at a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland."All countries can still change the course of this pandemic." The pandemic pronouncement comes less than three months after the Dec. 31 notification of the organization by Chinese authorities of a new virus in Wuhan, China, affecting dozens of people and tied to a seafood market selling wild game.
Identified as a new coronavirus genetically related to 2003’s SARS virus, but more easily transmitted and with a dangerous serious case fatality rate of 2% to 4%, it has now spread to more than 100 nations and. Experts project that 40% to 70% of humanity — that's 3 billion to 5.5 billion people — might eventually become infected by the virus because of a lack of both a vaccine or innate immunity to the novel pathogen.
In Italy and Iran, Tedros warned the situation was very serious, with patients filling intensive care wards, and shortages of ventilators, protective equipment, and medical staff. He pointed to the successful bottling up of outbreaks in China, with more than 80,0000 cases, and South Korea, with more than 7,000, as pointing to the possibility of constraining the epidemic in countries worldwide.
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